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More Talk About Cotton
And the Supply of Labor
Editor Constitution: The deep interest
1 feel In everything pertaining to agrl
< dlt ir;. must be my excuse for again
writing on a subject which comes home
to cv..ry agriculturist in Gorgia and the
etbci southern states. Since the (to me)
v.-v'X,- cted prominence you gave my last
, ; mlcation, and in view of some
the subsequent comment upon the
t -.sis therein contained, I have
you might find space for a few
• tnls- from me. 1 have no pride
~ Tship, however, and shall not be
„ iiurt It you should determine that
i available for publication. 1
B k i ; u the strain upon the columns
. r like The Constitution is very
'■ -. i that it is often impossible to
•i tor tite effusions of outsiders
B i pt ation of mj iirst comniuni-
9 « 1; • brought a large number of
Jw'm h have reached me through
... jrtesy of your editor. Some of
| v. on-allied sentiments of ap-
uij suggestions, while others
i orally, taken is ue with me.
. ■ e at least two sides to every
and 1 would have been sur
q ideed it my suggestion as to the
| .., i. .. of Chinese labor had not
Io _ . some adverse comment. That
..... ■:i who have given close sluuy
i - '.‘i.t agree with me is, how
. . . - d .y the loliowing letter
meat Georgian, which 1 lake
.. :tj ol making a pat l ol this
. imnuaii tllon:
! cl have just read, with mucl(
■ ; . . ■. y our leitei m Ine Atlanta Con-
; the ist instant, ano heartily
S . o' <ry Worn that you say in re
• e tie • ssily ot t tiinese labor
■ salvation lor the agricultu-
i •- oi ill.- ssoutb. j have tor a
q.3j . nt.Ttki.'ieii exactly your
i ■■ otten so express* d my -
» ■ ever in print. 1 think the
tin. now arrived when a united
id be made by every one, in
■i particularly, where we are
‘‘-a .■ pi-nd. nt on negro labor, to get
admit the Chinese. 1 should
t ; m some time when you
\ and dis uss the matter
I hope you will pardon the
ken in writing you, but
bject prompts me to
■ Very truly yours,
J. B S. HOLMES.
S i mi >er 4, 1903.
lii'.mes is if 1 am not mistaken,
■ v Intel.'St. d in agriculture on
irge seal" lb writes as no
■ orist, but as one having prac
w'edgc of the difficulties which
lliemseiv to every man who
■jf ' ’ plant cotton on a large scale,
i.i produce any of the other staple
M -t crops Hundreds of men like
■ n; self w< ul 1 be getting very
■ti results from our lands if
'-W v. ■ w< r. permitted by conditions to se-
a. better class of labor and more
R 1 ere permit me to say that In a
-S editorial reference to my card
«■ Constitution s> emed to catch only
"Fthm of my suggestion. You refer
' my having argued in favor of Chi
labor rather as an ill istrati
f ■ dei-iied efficiency to bo secured than
S‘ " th " •-xpression of a desire for the pres
r-e of the Chinamen themselves
-'- s a matter of fact, what I meant to
, ..nvey was not only the desirability
W > aase. but 1 would, like to have the
§■ <’hinest themselves; and I stand ready
c ■ i do al] in my power to aid Dr. Holmes
'■< anybody else in an endeavor to shap.
*S public sentiment so as to bring about
'irm.-h change In our immigration laws
•’m may mak. it possible to get China
men for w -rk in cotton fields our
lice fl.'.is and on our fruit farms. 1
v mt ■ i’n !>■ ■ i ■ 1 know of no
1 eq :.tliy ..s good. 1 havi seen and
/(studied '.he results of their labor on the
•>.dfruit f irms <>l he Pacific coast. I know
Slow much they are valued upon the
■ great sugar plantations in th< Hawaiian
; nd ind 1 hav ■ read of the high
1 n. iati an which the planters in the
< P . \pp!n< s and other parts of tropical
.» Ai-i.i have of this indefatigable worker.
.3. ao Id rather have Chinese labor than
| any under the sun.
only do I want them for myself.
| . '.lrmly believe the importation of
S 1 hundred thousand into Georgia
ROOT OF THE MATTER.
J a;; d Himself of Serious Stomach .
".' üble by Getting Down to
First Principles.
of large affairs in one of our
» it eastern cities by too close at
.. 10 business. too little exercise and
’ .y lub dinners, finally beg in to
ire's tax, levied in the form of
sfomach trouble; the failure oi
.• tiiut brought about a nervous
~y making it impossible to apply
i" Ids daily business and finally
ng tic kidneys and heart.
iwn words lie says: “I consulted
ysi tan after another and each
tied to understand my ease, but
same they each failed to bring
. : 1 eturn of my former digestion,
igor. For two years I went
. iar to post, from one sanitarium
’ I gave up smoking. 1 quit
...id even renoun, vd my daily glass
•f beer, bur without any marked
•is had often advised me to try a
•vn .c ■!,>rb t..ry medicine, Stuart's
.1 Tablets and I had often pe
ril.. m wsyaper advertisements of
■ edy but never took any stock tn
: ' . T < d medicines nor could believe a
t patent medicine would touch
1. ike a long story short T finally
. ,t a couple of packages at the near
rug store and took two or three
alt r each meal and occasionally
■t b. ween meals, when f felt any
.c of nausea or dis omfort.
I -as sutprised nt thr end of the first
t... note a mark ’d improvement in
tite and general health and be
tiic two packages were gone I was
■ Stuart's I ■ ■
c .Ing so cur.- c-.rnpli tely. .ii.d they
not disappoint me. I can eat and
and enjoy my coffee and cigar and
would suppose I had ever known
■ horrors of dyspepsia.
: friendly curiosity J wrote to th»
ri. t< s of the remedy asking for in -
...I ri as to what the tablets con
tad they replied that the principal
dients were aseptic pepsin (govern
t-'i-t . malt diastase and other nat
igestives. which divest food regard
s the condition of the stomach "
1 -.,t of the matter is this, the diges
■ ' Tments rontafned in Stuarts Dys
Tablets will digest the food, give
•v. .-worked stomach a chance to re
late and the nerves and whole sys
. re< vivo the nourishment which can
I > "me from food; stimulants and
■ ver give 1 ea 1 strength, thev
!■ a fictitious strength. Invariable fol
■v< i by reaction. Every drop of blood,
t nerve and tissue is manufactured
" nr daily food, .and if you can insure
! prompt action and complete digestion
1 . regular use of so good ami whole-
s a remedy as Stuart’s Dyspepsia
Tabic's, you will have no need of nerve
, t ■: i ,nd sanitariums.
lb gh Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
hav. t■ . in the market only a few years,
yet ; ..-.blv everv druggist m tl'.e United
I States. Canada and Great Britain now
sells them and considers them the m<’t
popular and successful of any preparation
for stomach trouble.
would be of the greatest pos<ble benefit
to this slate.
I feel that it is a very good sign when
a young man of such high order of abil
ity as Professor Ulrich B. Phillips, a
1 student and a thinker, turns his atten
tion to the discussion of so prosaic a
subject as agriculture rather than to
trying to "solve problems," which seems
to be the favorite pastime of writers
these days. With very much that Pro
fessor Phillips has written in his two
papers published tn The Constitution 1
heartily agree, but he and 1 differ sharp
ly upon -one point, namely, the adequacy
01 the present labor supply. He says
what Georgia needs is "not more labor
ers, hut more efficient laborers;',’ 1 hold
that we need both. Professor Phillips
suggests that the importation of one hun-
I ui"d Chinamen would mean nothing more
titan driving that many other workers
from the lields. to other pursuits. It is
my contention that they have already
left the fields, ami I feel that 1 have the
indorsement of the l>st authority in the
statement that the present supply of
labor for the lields Is entirely inadequate
to the possibilities of production which
the lands present. You will recall what
Mr. D. A. Tompkins, whom we all rec
ognize as one of the best posted men on
cotton conditions in the southern states,
says about labor conditions in North
Carolina. He shows that within the past
lew years no less than one hundred
thousand former workers in the cotton
fields of that state have gone to worlfc.
in the cotton factories and the other
mills; and he expresses the opinion that
the same kind of exodus has been going
on in the other suites of the south.
I believe this to be true here in Georgia
as it is in North Cardlina. I believe we
lack not only in the quality but in the
quantity of the labor supply. 1 believe
that if we were to put one hundred thou
sand Chinamen down on the cotton and
rice plantations and in the fruit orchards
of Georgia, wo would not drfve other
labor out. but w would make the waste
places throughout the state blossom and
bear splendid fruit. The entire state
would bo greatly benefited.
Now the bugaboo of cotton over-produc
tion does not scare me m the least. Talk
of that kind does not rake into consider
ation the constantly increasing demand
for cotton goods the world over. If
there w to enough cotton in the world,
why would European governments be
bonding all their energies to promote the
growing of cotton in the African and Asi
atic colonies? Perhaps we might not be
getting 12 cents for our cotton if the
productiveness of Georgia soil were test
ed to the limit, but increase of produc
tion would not very greatly affect tite
price in view of the constantly increasing
demand, in any event, with proper labor
the cost of producing the staple would be
so ent that the result would be much
more substantial net profit.-.
XVhat hurts me is the yearly waste 1
am experiencing from my own lands. 1
am not bothering so much about the
status of Georgia in relation to the cotton
I industry forty or one hundred years in
i the future, as I am about my own in
ability to get results "is'iit now I have
the land and 1 have sufficient means to
make c-very square foot of it productive,
but I cannot get the 'abor.
i As I have previously said, I could have
I made 1,000 bales of cotton this year in
stead of the .leO bal ■ T expect to get,
1 if 1 had been abb* to sccuri the right
sort ei' label. By tin- 1 ni'.in not qual
j Ity abmo, but quantity.
I I believe I have my properties operating
on a strictly business basis. 1 do not
’ give my farms over cotton, for
i I my supplies :,d I diversify mv
j crop according to the capabilities of the
; land. But I have a bn of land which is
1 bringing me in nothing i.e> a use 1 cannot
: get all thi’ lahor_ I I. Cotton is the
‘ great mon. y crop of this state, :in ,i 1
i naturally feel that 1 am losing heavily
I each year because of my inability to se
cure a sufficiency of <i. ; -irable labor to
produce all the cotton ~f which my lands
are capable. I could use to advantage
a good many mor, negroes, but I would
t cry much rather have Chinamen, be -au ■
I am convinced, as I have said, of the
far greater efficiency of that laoor.
A GEORGIA FARMER
Houston County, Georgia, September 7,
1903.
The Labor Problem.
Editor Constitution; 1 have been in
terested in the critlci-ms on Mr. Graves’
Chicago spei-ch. I think he is about as
far wrong as the gentlemen who want
to import Chinese laborers. If Mr. Graves’
ideas could bo, and were carried out, good
farming lands 5 miles from the towns
would sell tor $1 to per acre, and
would be dear at that price. In that
portion of my < uinty where the farms
were stripped of labor by "Peg Leg”
Willjams, land- did soil for $1 to $2 per
lacte, awl can yet be bought tor less than
What we want is a different system of
farming, so as tite labor can bo utilized
to a belter advantage. Planters and
small farmers must abandon the almost
universal tenant and cropping system and
hire thiir labor for waves. l)o this and
properly enforce, the Calvin vagrancy law
and then will be a plenty of labor for
everynody who is capable of managing
it, and anyone who can’t manage the
average plantation darky would certainly
be in tile soup with a lot of cnolies ()n
i.is hands. c. yi. SANDERS.
Penfield, Ga., September 15.
Machinery and Labor Needed.
Editor Constitution; 1 read with much
interest your ree.-nt articles on the labor
situation as regards cotton production.
Mr. Phillips' article on returning to the
eld plantation method is suggestive and Is
about tin only sy.-tem in use at present
by which cotton growing is carried on as
a business. Hut anything like a general
adoption of litis method would oc met
with such opposition from the very large
per cent of our population whose liveli
hood comes from "trading and traffick
ing” with the small fry. as to hinder, if
1 not prevent it altogether. Anyone who
will probe the matter will find the busi
ness, professional and shade workers gen
: erally howling for the small farmer. The
reasons are well known and many. Some
one else holds up the methods used in
ing th great staples ol the north
wst as a panacea. The south cannot
hope to adopt tlr.se methods to the grow
ing of cotton without a successful me
chanical cotton picker. Under present
’ ei nditions if economy of production is
practised by using machinery, you will
find when harvest comes you ate short
six hands tin' every two employ d. To
meet this requires carrying over this
much force or trusting on picking them
i up when needed, a rather risky job. This
■ I fact is also responsible for the .low scale
1 I of wages for cotton growing, and the im-
' 1 ortation of Chinese, as one writer sug
|gi sts, would not correct It. Furthermore,
1 I my observation is the foreigner does not
I work for wages on the farm after one
| or two years' residence in this country,
lit is not pauper labor that is needed,
| but rather machinery and intelligent la-
■ i bor ami fair wages. Until this takes
; piace" the factories, etc., will continue to
■ •draw the er. am from the lields. In the
m antime the colored brother ami bis
[ 'long-eared cousin" will be instrumental
. i-i making and gathering the major por
tion of the cotton crop
[ CLIFF ADAMS.
v Jacksonville, Texas.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITL’TIOIx : ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, BEPTEMBEK 21, 1003.
PROBLEM SOLVING
AND PROSPERITY.
(Richard H. Edmonds in The Manufac
turers' Record.)
Referring to what he calls the negro
"problem,’ Mr. Graves said:
"To (he white men of tite south the
problem hampers its material develop
ment. It halls our growth. By the rec
ords of lite census ii frightens immigra
tion Horn industrial competition wilii the
negro. It largely deters capital from in
vestment in tlie shadow of an unsolved
problem. It makes a slandaid of labor
mat prejudices all our southern poor
against menial but honorable service, it
depresses agriculture on the farms am.
property in the suburbs, ami drives all
who can air'ord the change to the safety
afforded by proximity and police protec
tion in the cities. Tin: south is un
equaled in the four great basic raw ma
terials of coal, iron, cotton and lumber.
And yet, while $ 100.000.000 of our money
goes yearly to Europe at -I per cent, these
great fields are scantily developed. And
thus, while one great section of our coun
try is halted in development, the free
movement of men and money in all sec
tions is hindered toward the inviting field
of opportunity."
How often must the story of the south s
amazing progress be told? How often
must the facts be given to show a re
demption from the poverty following the
wreck and ruin of the war, unparalleled
in history? in agriculture and manufac
tures the south, despite all its burdens,
all its false teachers, has in twenty years
made a greater percentage of progress
than the country at large. Since 1891,
when it had less than 2.000,000 cotton
spindles, it has increased its cotton mills
by over 6,200,000 spimites, giving it now
a total ot 8,250,000 spindles, while dur
ing the same period England added only
1,650,000 to its 45,000,000 spindles, and
New England added only 1,880,000 spin
dles to ns 13,250,000. England and Hie
north combined had in 1891'58.000,000
spindles, which they have since Increased
by 3,300,000, while tite south had less
than 2,000,000 spindles, which it lias
since increased by 6.200.000.
What has been done in cotton has to a
considerable extent been done in lumber,
coal ami iron. Since 1880 the south has
iiict'i ased its pig iron production from
39/,000 tons to over 3,000,000 tons,
reaching this year probably about 3,500,-
000 tons; it lias increased its coal out
put from 6.000.000 tons to over 60,000,-
000 tons; its exports from 3261,000,000
to $510,000,000. In 1880 it had 20,600
miles of railroad, now it has about 60,-
000 mill's; then it had $23,500,000 capital
Invested in lumbt r operations, now it. has
$181,700,000, and the value of its lumber
products increased from $39,900,000 in
1880 to $188,000,000 in 1900. And yet
Mr. Graves talks about the south not
progressing..
In tin light of such figures, which are
open to the world, how utterly absurd
seem the statements made by Mr. Graves.
The fact is. starting with his false pre
mises on the industrial line, he has large
ly overdrawn the conditions. He has
painted a picture of the south which is
not true, but it is a picture which will lie
distributed by northern and western
railroads seeking to keep immigration
Horn the south by the hundreds of thou
sands "f copies, if not by millions. Eu
rope, tin north and the west will be
Hooded with it to prove that white peo
ple must not go south. His speech will
Connterai t Ute good work of a hundred
railroad immigration agents, for. false
though It be, it will be distributed
i - the views of a soutln >ll nmn. From
beginning to .ml Mr. Gravis' new things
ire not triu' tilings, and bis true things
are not. new tilings.
CHALLENGES UNCLE MARK.
John H. Clarke, of Ohio, Wants Joint
Debate with Hanna.
Norwalk. Ohio. Septf mb. r 18 lion.
John 11. l':.irk< . democratic candidate for
I nited Sttiti > temitor. In a speech Imre
tonight formally challenged Senator Han
na to nn i t him in joint dobati- on the is
sues of tin campaign. Mi Clarke said in
pa rt:
"1 have been asked so frequt-ntiy dur
ing tile past two weeks it tlmre would 1,"
a joint discussion of the issu ‘s of th s
campaign betwi en Senator Hanna and
myself that I .1 . ire to say publieiy hi ' e
tonight that it would be- .'Xtremely agree
able to me to meet Senator Hanna, if ins
"health will permit, in joint discussion of
the issm - whiclt v.e t. present."
Referring to the recent propo ition of
Chairman Sah n, of the democratic state
i s'-.' Utiie. ' .mmitti o, m.'tdi’ to ('hairman
Dick, of the republican committee, that
campaign exp- ndltures on both sides he
limited and that each committee publish
a sworn statement Just, prior to election,
showing the total amount thus expended,
Mr. ('latke said lie greatly favored the
plan.
"I here and now .publicly pledge my
self.” continued Mr. Clarke, "to make
such stat, meet as proposed by Mr. Sah ii,
of all expi-nditures made by rm- or with
my knowledge. dircctiy or indirectly,
without re.' rvation of any iharaeter. in
my campaign for I'nited States senator,
regardless of what General Dick's an
swer may be.”
THIRTY BOOKIES INDICTED.
Wave of Morality Strikes the Chica
go Grand Jury.
Chicago. September 18. Indictments
were today returned against thirty-three
bookmakers doing business on the local
race tt i a. Tim charge against them
was made under the general law against
gambling.
Some evidence was offered against the
officials of the racing associations, but no
bills wi re rm n i - .1 igainsl tli-ni.
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Letters of Congratulation
Pour in on Bishop Candler
Editor Constitution: Since my article
criticising lynching was published I
have received a great number of letters
from men in every walk jn life, and from
men of both races, approving what I
said against .this horrible mania. I give
extracts from a few of them which will
show how true to that which is right
are the heads and hearts of the wisest
and best among us; believing, as 1 do,
that .hereby righteousness mav be en
couraged and hope may be cheered in
the hearts of both this white and black
people of lite country. My own faith
has been greatly confirmed by these let
ters, and 1 trust that others may be
similarly strengthened by reading ex
tracts from them.
Governor Terrell, the honored <hief
magis'rate of our state, in a letter dated
September 9. says: “I wish to extend
both official ami personal thanks for your
most excellent article on mob law. 1 h»vo
not read anything in a long time that
suits the conditions so well.”
General Gordon, the brave soldier anik
best beloved son of Georgia, writes: "Let
me add an expression pf obligation lor
your superb article on uKb law. It has
the true ring lam with you.
Judge Samuel B. Adams, whose brief
service on the supreme bench, though
brilliant, could add no honor to a name
already lustrous with every personal ex
cellency ami professional virtue, speaks
with characteristic force and frankness:
”1 am glad that you wrote and published
your communication on Lynching. It
ought to do much good. Every word
ought to meet the unqualified indorse
ment of every good citizi n. No good
man can afford t'j, excuse lynching in any
Judge W. A. Covington, who is n young,
but uncommonly able, judge, living at
.Moultrie, Ga., writes in away to set
sensible men to thinking in several im
portant directions. He says; "Your re
cent article in The AHAnta. Constitution
•suits me.' Jn our recent local option
campaign 1 had occasion to argue the
truth of three propositions: ♦!). Ihe
mob is generally drunk. <2;- Thu victim,
when guilty, has, in the majority of
cases, liven drunk when the crime was
committed. (3)- Our people, white and
black, are the most law-abiding tn the
world' when sober, and the storm cen
ters of lawlessness, the country over, are
•wide open sections;' as in the ease of
Breathitt county. Kentucky. 1 know
that we are in a state of vast improve
ment here, since we have made the
change."
in connection with these suggestive
words of Judge Covington, it i- worthy
of remark that, the "saloon problem" is
a far more, urgent and difficult problem
than the "race problem,” and the south
more nearly than any o.ther section, has
put down the saloon. With the saloon
banished from every part of tb ' republic,
all other questions would be simplitied
immeasurably.
Rev. James W. Lee, D.D.. that gifted
and devoted Georgian, now resid nt in
St. Louis, Mo., writes: "From, the bot
tom of my heart i thank ym. and con
gratulate the southern people upon
your deliverance on lynching in I At
lanta. i'onstitution, which has just- reach
<-,l me today. The Emd blc.s ymt and
guide you in yoqr grist work for the
church and our country.”
How the Best Negroes Feel.
It is mportant tils ' and highly use
ful, that tile white ; "'!<■ know ImM the
bi si m gtocs feel ami think about this
matter. Accordingly I give a few ex
tracts from letters v. itten to me from
representatives of that raei..
At I’.urn institute. Augusta. Ga., a
■ school established and i ndowi d by Metli
; odists of the south for the training of
negto preachers ami ba. hers, Profess"f
' .1 W Gilbert labors as an instructor. He
i graduated there, and went to Brown uni
versity, where be was very successful,
' winning a scholarship in Grt"k, wliicu
I gave him a term of years in Greece fm
I the better studying o.f the language ami
i history of that intef'.-iing people. It
I may be doubted if the:" are many bet
r Greek scholars in Georgia. 11"
writes: "I can not help expressing my
gratification and tr ttiic.de lor Hie ar
ticle given by yott t in ('onstitution
two or three daj's ago. I pray God
that the day will soon come when the.
' Christian men and women, both white
' and black, in the south (Whatever other
: people may do) will aside Hie Hi. -
j turbing 'performers and p ittormer.', tiiat
Citimo along with the other pests of
I dog days. 1 confess that they, both
' white and black, son'.' Hines give. me
I nightmares. It is so retr-shing and <m
; couraging to hear a cln - rlul ( hristian
I voice like spurs say that all this talk!
;ab mt separation of tin races is the
verii st buncombe. Ido n wish to leave
I the white people, from whom I have re
l ceived my Bible, my ti.aining, my inspira
i tion, and all that makes me a civilized,
I t’hristlan man. Th" demonstration of
I the fact that we can live together is
that we are doing so. ami have been do-i
i ing go nearly tjiree hundred years. I
; want all Hie rap.ists kill'd, according to
; law and ori.li.r. and speaking for the class
' of negroes I represent, wc stand as ready
to probet the .women >f the southern
wlnje people as we. could to protect out
own lives. I wish that the southern
white people really kn* w how the best
class of mgroes feel '"Ward them. My
heart bleeds when the diabolical deeds
of the slum negroes, ignorant, vicious
and .bestial, are atiribD'd to the race
rather than to the indiivduals who com
mit them. As 1 said in Atlanta a few
days ago. knowing ihe southern minis-
■ try as J do, 1 feel th it. they can be, de-
; pended upon to take the right, the
Christian position, rvhcnevgr it comes
■to the question affecting (he races. I
prophesy the passing aw_j,y of lynch law
j and mob violence whenever the black
I pulpit preaches against the crimes that
! provoke lytjching, and the white, pulpit
; against the. that, commit lynchings.
I I. say this in references to the whole coun
-1 try in general, and not with reference
i to the south in particular, for it. is a
question whether more of our friends
l are north or souj_h of the Mason and
I Dixon line.”
; Moses Amos, who is manager of the first
: drug stoic conducted by a negro In Geor
: gia, says under date of September 9: "I
j thank you for your letter in The Consti
i tution of today. 1 have lived in Georgia
all of my life. I have been in thirty-six
states in tin.' union, and I would not give
up Georgia for an.v that 1 have seen. No
good citizen can indorse lynching and all
good citizens condemn crime. The law
abiding negro is wilting to do anything in
his power to promote peace between the
races. e hate to have our black faces
; to cause us to be adjudged criminals,
I thieves and rapists, when within our
' breasts burns the ardent desire to be good
; citizens, worthy of the respect and conti
j deuce of the people with whom we live."
Rev. L. H. Smith, a negro preacher liv
i ing in .Macon writes: "Your letter, headed
i ’The Good People Must Put Down the
Mob or Be Put Down by It. gives much
hope, light, spiritual strength and Chris
tian courage to many despairing negro
Christians who, like myself, more than
forty years ago learned to love God, as
revealed in Christ, through the teachings
wo received from white Christians, men
and women, of this and other south' rn
states. There are thousands and thou
sands of us who are heartily pained when
ever anyone of our people (or any person
of any race) sins or commits crime, be
cause we know that sooner or later due
punishment follows and overtakes every
sinner or criminal. But, as you know, it
Is very hard and discouraging for the very
best of negro ( hristians when at. home or
upon the highway they are often made to
feel and to see that no better considera
tion is given them by the mob you refer
to than is given to the lowest in crime
among us."
Another says: "i am a member of the
negro race (born since the war between
the states), yet I believe that I voice the
sentiment of all my people (1 mean the
good) when I pledge my support (be tl’.at
much or little) to help bring the evil doer
to justice, and to uphold the strong arm
of the iaw.”
Still another writes: "No negro of ordi
nary intelligence condones the crimes of
his fellows. Nor do they want social
equality. All they ask is fair treatment
and an assurance of all our rights as law
abiding citizens. You have struck the
keynote of the situation, for I believe
truly that If the ever present ‘space
writer,’ ‘platformer’ and Chautauqua ora
tor were shut off for only a little while,
the result would be so apparent and satis
factory that reputable newspapers of this
country would never again admit the stuff
that threatens to destroy the good rela
tions between the racesq I,et all the good
people of Georgia speak out and show the
world how very, very small is the howling
mob in this section of our great coun
try.”
Another declares: "With the spirit
manifested in your article the solution of
our difficulties is only a matter of time.”
Limitations of both time and space for
bid the use of other extracts from the
large bulk of letters, written by represen
tatives of both races, which I have re
ceived. Your readers will recall with what
conservatism and unanimity the preach
ers of Atlanta, both white and black, re
sponded to my article.
In the light of all these expressions, and
with thousands of other tokens of peace
around us, I can not believe that the
south is confronted by any problem that
good men helped of God, can not and will
not speedily solve.
Worth Repeating.
There is one sentence in Professor Gil
bert's article which impresses me as be
ing so sensible that I wish to repeat it
here: "I prophes.v the passing away of
lynch law and mob violence whenever the
black pulpit preaches against the crimes
that provoke lynching, and the white pul
pit against the mobs that commit lynch
ing.”
I am persuaded that it is absolutely in
jurious for white preachers and writers to
spend their time denouncing the sins of
the negro to the white people, and the
negro 1 aiders to be everlastingly harping
on the sins of the white people to negro
audiences. It is always easy to denounce
an absent sinner, but It. is more useful to
rebuke the sinner present before us.
If wo can induce each race to sweep
clean before its own door the south will
be the cleanest and happiest spot in the
republic, and I am Inclined to think that
even now. with all that remains to be
done, it. is just that spot.
WARREN A < ANDLER.
The Law of Moses and the Courts
Editor Constitution: I’b'ase grant m •
a little space in your column; upon a
question of personal privilege. Tlr< : re
port of my sermon at Macon on "The
Cities of U fuge," published in The Con
stitution, some two weeks ago, was very
accurate, but. in Hie abbreviated form
that was unavoidable, there i s abundant
temptation to read bejwee'.'. the lints and
put things in my mouth I nev r .aid and
■to attribute conclusions to me that I
never expressed. Cri'L'isms published in
your paper < oni inced me that this has
t een dene to a wide extent.
1 do not approve of lynching. 1 do not
belli \c that anything could induce me t ,
participate in a lynehin.g. I Indorse the
strong stand which Tite Constitution Ims
taken against mob law, and big to unite
in the great uprising of sentiment against
it. and in everything that can be said ini
denunciation of the lyching evil.
But all this is combating a position
very different from the one 1 took in the
sei mon alluded to. The interest which
seems to have been awakened by that
sermon shows that the whole country
is aroused on the subject. Even the clip
ping bureaus are seeking my patronage.
The scope of the comments, favorable
and unfavorable. Justify my sermon.
Many of these criticisms, with a zeal to
denounce lynching as an absolute outlaw,
err greatly when they give unqualified in
dorsement to the criminal jurisprudence
of our country, while they utterly ignore
the facts that Hod has spoken on the
subject of the punishment of crime.
Mv sermon was preached to direct the
attention to the law of God on the sub
ject. Aly object was conservative. My
method was strictly Biblical. As matter
of illustration. 1 pointed out some of the
ways in which <iyr criminal courts and
pardoning boards Ignore the law of Moses
and defj the law of God. Our laws say
that crime is punished to deter offenders
from t-p'-aling Hie erimes that they have
committed, and to deter others from com
mitting like offenses. Moses, on the cou
t'iry says: "8o ye shall not pollute
the land wherein ye are. for blood it
q. lileth the land; ami the laud van not
be cleansed of Hie blood that, is shed
bi t. iiu but By th v L>iood of him that sued
ji. —Dent, xxx.v, 33
1 ,'t tite readyr turn to this chapter
ano read i', especially from verse 3U to
t> ' end. Hi re we see that Hie great.
i. of the. divine law is expiation, and
not simply punishment or warning. But
our Gw courts ignore the. loctrine o£
( xpiatmn. At'i' es 1 arbids me execution ol
a criminal, except on the testimony of two
willies l? ' ui . -'m tribunal that sits m
j. mem. except in the case of the aeci
dc'ilal killing of a person, seems to have
been emistft-ited of thus" people who were
situated as to the . rime. 11
was a tribunal of bystanders. The
trial was free from formality, from te.-h
- , hindrances. It followed the crime
immediately, and the law wa s executed
promptly- m cases of aceid. ntal killing,
if the offender could reach a city .of
refuge, he was protected from tin? otln r
v iso summary trial .ami given an oppor
tunity to show his freedom from malice.
Our jury system, which is about 500
years old. was. doubtless, inaugurated
to carry out the divine law. In its mam
primiples it did this at first, but it does
not do it now. Th- whole system is
permeat' d with injustice to society. De
lays and evasion have come in until it
‘■makes void the law of God by its tra
ditions.”
"The powers that be” are ordained of
God. But they are not, for that reason,
to be allowed to defy the law of God.
and God always finds a method for de
stroying th_e power that He has ordained,
when they forget Hl?', law. Anarchy may
be Just ms ripe tn the court bouse as on
tlie roadside, where a criminal, caur-ht.
red-handed in the perpetration of a crim<-'
is executed by the decree of a mob. Tt
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is mere bombast to expatiate about Hie
majesty ot' the law, when the law despise;
the majesty of God.
1 believe that Moses was as safe and
wise a lawgiver as Bjaekstone, ami that
God knew what was best, better than
any legitimate body that has assembled
in England or America since the barons
of England met King John at Runny
mede.
Let our people ami our courts get filled
with the idea tha.t where a crime goes I
unpunished, the whole land is guilty of j
the crime. Let our governors and par- j
cloning boards see. when they oxer- '
else their unlimited power to pardon
they assume the guilt pf the accused.
Tim crime of rape is merely incidental
to this discussion. In Moses’ law it
was punished immediately by a tribunal
of bystanders, so far as we can see.
I have not said that Moses’ method
was the same as the lynch law of our
day. Much less do I say that I would
substitute lynch law for our common
law, but I did say. and I repeat, that
Moses’ method waq God’s law, and if the
revolting methods of modern mob courts
resemble God's law more than the meth
ods of our modern' law courts resemble
God's law, surely, there must be some
thing wrong with our modern methods,
which demand that tlmv he reformed
JOHN L. D. IHLLY'ER.
Rome, Ga.
In Defense of Lynching.
Editor Constitution: Judging from Ho
recent issues of The Constitution, a par
oxysm of holy horror, at the enormity of
lynching seems to have seized the pr.'.-i
--dent, an associat" justice of the supreme
court of the United States, a governor, i
bishop and various distinguished divine-, 1
white and colored. It appears to have as- j
siimed the proportions of a. small cyclone,
and the result is a nnnanimous ex e-Hb -
lira, v.indy fiilmination against anarchy
and mob law.
Whence tlie present necessity of this
fierce charge upon a man of straw ? Wlio
in, Georgia favor anarchy or mob law mj
Its true and offensive s tis .' When in th
history of this great state wor. the p •- •
pie more loyal to law and gov< rnimmi
When wore courts nwre regularly 1c I ;
and the law more speedily and justly d- .
| ministered and her virtuous and patriot! • !
! people more conservative and law-abid- ■
I ing? Th.'"e denunciations of mob iaw and
anarchv are intended to characterize Hi >
summar. pnnishtn.-nt of negroes for i -r
--tain nameless crimes. Would it not ne ■
infinitely more wise to bestow a U thm
learned breath in effort to remove the
cause to stop the crime than to en-
courage it unwittingly by silence at its
enormity and bitter denunciation of its
righteous punishment. A sweet girl in
her teens, all unconscious of danger.
I threading her way to school, is outran, al
: i.v a beastly negro, her throat, cut and her
i body dragged into the woods and hid to
' be devoured by dogs or vultures. An hon- j
• i st, toiling farmer leaves in tin- morning
! for the lli al of his labor, tlie wile o' ni.-
■ love in fancied security in his cottage or
' rustle, supposed to be under the r>r<ictoc- .
I Hon of a government he pays his monev
to support and gives his blood to del-'tid. .
i both happy; he returns in the . ■ nie '
•and instr'' of meeting at Hie gate Hie,
I sparkle of in eye that watches his com
‘ ing am! grows brighter when he comes,"
; he beholds th" moldering ruins of Ida I
home and the charred remains ■>: tlio
: idol of his heart, with her head crushed ;
with a bludgeon, after she had suffer.'.! a ,
horror worse than death. The neighb' ts,
with common consent and with comni.-n
hands ami without the sordid Incentive j
. <>f reward meet, hunt up the erimin.o. ;
identify him. receive his confession ■>! I
'guilt and administer speedy, d< seived and
suiTimary punishment, in which ■ j
ments of justice, penalty, r.’v<-iige, pr- I
vention ami pioteetion are o..mlamd. '".j
is simply lynching, and gri at men utl.Ti'
ignore the crime invo.ving lionet. s‘‘ 0.-ij ■
and life and raise a howl of indignati' ■'j
against those who thus essay to semi: i
protection and punish the criminal. ■ He: e [
denunciations may sola, e the relatives <n j
Sam Hose, but they will nex.'i 0mt;..l (
action of conservative, chivalri ? Ge-oi-j
glans.
It seems to mo that if these who sc. lv j
to teach Hie people and control I' ll1 '.’
sentiment und-TSiood th- genesis "f t.os
crime, for which the Ameiicaii j 1 "11' i
row, north and south, adopt lynching as
the rightful remedy, they would tind i'-S
■ birth and origin IN THE INSANE DE
.SIRE OF THE NEGRO FOlt SOi'l.'.i;
EQUALITY WITH THU WHITE ft.V 'E
1 .Nl'Ol RAGED A.Nl> FOSTERED I'Y
I THE I'EAUHING AND POLICY OF I'U 5
REPUBLICAN PARTY. The negroes
; were taken from Hie Heid and pa. to
j making constitutions for the truest and
I bravest people of earth. 'I im iiv dman - .
bureau was establi ■ ■ . . ie i mtro
' \» !s e.s between the tiles anil tnc m- |
! ’-joes in nivor of the . \\ hilt. - m n »
.1. cted to the legislatures were turned .mt
and black men, defeated at Hie ballot b<’x. 1
were put in their places. Tii.’y wer... sem i
to each house of congress and appoint' 1 I
to important positions in Hie executivol
department. Th. y were encouraged ■i,
idleness and reliance upon the govern- i
merit for a. livelihood by Hie proim.-• i |
10 acres and a muh . Tim forty-third con-1
gress. passed the civil rights oi l intend, d
to inforce by law .obsolete s . i.il cqmi.:ity. | <
President McKini. y r’de in state by tlm i
side of negro. President Roosevelt dim d| ,
a negro with his family at th" whit■■ ■ ,
bouse. The highest official in tlie United I (
Slates, thus siting Hie exampie ot per- [ ,
feet equality with tlie negro in the most • ,
sact'od function of smiai lifi -dming ail .
the family board with wit" and children.
Minnie C"X. a negress. r fed at the pub-1 ,
lie crib, though out of office, while Miss. ,
Houldah Todd, a white woman and faith- ,
liil public officer, is put out of office at I ,
tlie behest of party henchmen. The latest , j
miserable fraud and ib ccption p. iT"trat< d I .
upon the m’gro by the republican party
was Senator Hanna's late bill to pension i
the blacks. All this professed devotion to |
the negroes' rights, social equality in- |
eluded, is a delusion and a snare intend
ed, to secure the negro vote in the national I
nominating convention from tlm i
‘onth ami the negro vote at the
ballot box in the election In the
middle and western states. The
republican party cares mithiiifr for the I
negro except his vote. Lynching may go I
on, government may foster and rot down j
with postal frauds in Cuba and at Wash- I
ington if that, party can keep in -power.
The negro lias been trained I . believe ;
th it social as well as poiiti ■>l . 'id I il j
equality is his due. and a blin idiot can I
rend between the lines of Book r Wash
ington’s teaching that his meaning is to
incite the race to aspirations for social 1
equality and yet those who denounce con
servative, patriotic white men for lynch- 1
7
ing would vote him an apothoesis. Tin
crime for which lynching is the only effi
cient remedy is the practical tost by th«i
brutal negroes of Hie attainment of that
social equality.
The governor of Indiana i.s greatly dis
turbed on account of lynching, yet that
virtuous ofli lai in violation of his official
oath and tlie constitution of his coun
try, harbors the assassin of the governor
of an adjoining state.
I To denounce the brave, conservative
i men in Georgia who justify lynching for
I criminal assault, assassination and ar-
I son and train wrecking for purposes ot
robbery, as a riotous, lawless mob Is ,v
perv. rsion of language am! an insult «
the people. The proof that the people >■'
Georgia, justify lynciilng in ex .optional
case.s Is found in tlie fact that sworn
grand jurors will not indict, nor traverso
jurims convict citizens for lynching in
these cases. The only official notice takmi
of a lynching is the offering of a reward
bv the governor, and a -barge to tli»
grand jury by the judge, both of win. a
are porfum tory pure and simple. Lynch
ing im- criminal assault is not anarchy.
It. is not mob law in the 'iffensi'ce sense
of that term If mob law. it is only so in
the teclmical smise of being with .ut or
against the law. If mob law at all, it H
only so in tin- sense that seizing the t-’l
at Boston, and the powder at Savannah
was mob law. to-wit: an extra legal pro
ceeding to advance the right. It has no
more similarity to the butchery of Ixiv
endeo and Paris than light has: to dark
ness. Nor does it bear the slightest
anulogv to Lord G<org“ Gordon's riot ”*
Iziml-m or H'.e Kensington riots of Phila
delphia. Tim learned divines who de
claim so vehemently against riot, an
archy, etc., will find striking illustratiotis
of wl'.at they cond-mn in the palac.: of
tite high priest, ami Hie judgment hall
of the Roman governor; also about the
town hall at Ephesus, and the steps of
th.- castle at J. rusalem. States arid
statesmen are sometimes confronted with
exigenei": that make it necessary to re
sort to extra, or if you please, unconsti
tutional measures. The purchase of
Louisiana from Napoleon is an illustra
tion. The ctnancii.ition proclamation ot
\braham I Incoln is another. This is just
ified upon the ground of state necessity.
Society which is greater tiffin states and
stair men; which makes and unmakes
ernmerjts some times, not often
<■■ inters exigencies or problems that, con
slitut' .1 as human nature Ls. defy solu-
; tion in conformity with the cold letter of
: i given rule Tlio southern whit..- people
hav.. met a social condition, the like of
i which never existed I 'fore, and upon
which neither experience, observation,
I Hur history can possibly shed any light.
I It is a race conflict, now on, begun by
the blacks and the lynching dance will
and ought to go on. as long as the blood
of murdered or the shrieks of ruined
white women furnish tlie music. 1 agree
with the Uonne. licet judge that it is
bi tter to make the mob a. court than to
make the .-ourt a moi', it is an immense
mistake to suppose that only bad men
engvige in lynching. Let. the Newnan
. crowd answer that alb-gat ion. The men
who engage in it do not oppose the ad
ministration of the law; they only antici-
i pate it. They do not oppose the govern
’ merit; they stand for the protection of
society and th,. punUhment of crime.
They do not destroy property; they do
not interfere- with business; th. y do not
■ punish without evidence of guilt. They
, peac.’ably and quietly assemble and when
■ their work is done they as peaceably and
quietly dispers ■. But >t is said that, they
■ make a mistak ■ and punish an innocent
man. This may be true, but it rarely
I happens. Courts and juries frequent!..■
i make grave mistakes in tlie conviction of
i the inno. <nt and the acquittal of the
i guilty. Nihil inventum est, et simul per
< fecturn. If the politician, the press and
I the pulpit would devote more attention
. to th ■ denunciation oi the crime and tlm
I criminal lyn.-hed, and less to the abuse
! of the lynchers, -they would render a
! bett-T service to soci-ty ami less unin
[ t entiou.-H .aid to crime.
HIRAM B. BELL.
i Cummins, Ga.. September 16, 1903.
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WxLDER'S T'KN HOLD REUNION.
Survivors of Famous Brigade Hear
Speeches at Chickamauga.
Chattanooga. Tenn., September 18.—Fif
teen hundred survivors of Wilder s fa
mous brigade today assembled on tlm
Chakarcauga battle field near the spot
w i’ci ■ th.? Wiit’cr memorial monument
li'irf been er' t d. and are commemorating
the fortieth anniversary of the bloody
battle of C'la .'.kamaugn, ami Hie part
which I'm? regimerq took in it. Tbere are
mm.y visitors in lii-- city in addition t i
the veterans.
General John T. Wilder and nearlj' ail
of the surviving ofiici of tlie brigade
are in attendance toduy. Addresses were
<hallied at (’hickamauga ;iy General
Wildi'v. Cel"::. 1 Tomlinson Fort,’ a promi
nent e.ir.f-derate i . tor.in. an i others,
and tonight a campfire was given the
visitors at the auditorium.
Otu- of the features of tlie day was a
revi"W .< th" Seventh cavalry by the
v. tcrans.
ONLY FOUR, DAYS FOR TREATY.
Panama Canal Treaty Must Soon Be
Ratified.
Washington. September 18.—Only four
d.i> > -main within which the ratifications
ol the lanama canal treaty must be ex
, iianv' d. lit H"i'ran, Hie Colombian
charge, transmits promptly to the state
d.partrnint such details of proceedings
in the Colombian congress as come to
him. but what their nature is he declines
to reveal.
IL? realizes the severity of the situa
tion, but lie has not any instruction io
’• ■quest an extension of the time for rati
fication, nor lias th" American govern
ment intimated, r-o far as known, that it
is anxious to grant it.
IS THIS YOU?
Do you spit up your food?
Do you belch gas?
Do you swell after
Do you have heart
i burn?
J --■'Sj3>a Do you have short-
*s?ness of breath?
I i »«£>/ Do vou have pains In
in ,iie ci "* st?
Do yon have sore
npss the siiie ?
>'” :1 have numb
i'?wW
-and- and feet?
Do you suffer with
constipalio'n or diarrhea? 1 can cure you.
W. J. TUCKER,
16 Broad Street, Atlanta, Q&.