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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
SATTTHPAY, AfOrST 28, 1968;
THE “REIGN OF TERROR” AND OTHER THEMES
DISCUSSED BY THE PEOPLE;
THANKS GOD FOR THE EDITORIAL IFCORPORATIONSCAN CONDEMN PROPERTY, WHY NOT MEN? REFLECTION ON SOUTHERN MANHOOD
i the Editor of The Georgian:
I extricated myself long enough this
norning from the whirl of frenited
1 nance to read your editorial on "The
Reign of Terror for Southern Women."
and I can lot refrain from thanking
the good Gal for a man who has the
ability and the courage to write such
plea, andifrom assuring you that I
(eel you ari set aside with a divine
gift, which! you are consecrating to
what will jrove ere long the greatest
question thijt ever confronted the Cau
casian ri
The negrj has been taught for forty
I years to ijtallate on ' the whites for
| having brtight him from the jungles
| of his nattB land and clothed him and
‘ attempted lo make something of him
more tharthe good God Intended him
for. He if* been taught by hts friends
! that a great curse was brought on his
race by our people, therefore the spirit
of retaliation has burned away his rea
son, and they now stand upon the vol
cano of extermination which will soon
explode and leave not a vestige of the
race on Southern part this United
States; and the sooner the eruption
takes place the better. '
I thank you for this wise and brave
defense. And I would like so much If
you would draw up a bill to have
passed giving every white lady a right
In Georgia to carry a nice handy pis.
tol on her person, anywhere and any.
way she sees lit. Also let us move to
have all our schools teach In the ath
letlc departments how to shoot.
Your friend,
J. A. DOSTER.
Lumber City, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906.
Tip REION OF TERROR.
To the/dltor of The Georgian:
ling for a remedy for the hor
rible rfidltlon. brought about by the
presem In the South of the negro
raplst/t seems to me that suggestions
Tilng short of deportation Is al-
worthless.
negro has advanced In edu.
d In political and social privl-
I the greater has become his de
claim equality with the white
I and this desire while originating
j the educated class of negroes and
fished by them as a fond dream to
Realized at some day not so far dis
appear directly to the animal
ons of the lower class and prompts
to accomplish their brutish de-
j without waiting for the hoped for
ifllment of the educated negro's
(earn. It is not simply a matter of
Jtiidylng lust. This they might d<
fth negro women without fear of pun
(hment, bit It Is the ever present, ever
(rowing anbltton of the negro to be
,he social equal of the whites that
Prompts hm to outrage white women.
I This coalition grows worse all the
(time andls made Infinitely worse ev-
ery time Mr. Roosevelt appoints one
I to an once or invites one to dinner
I or whenthey have the balance of pow-
I er betwfen two factions In any politi
cal confst.
Thertls no hope, so far as I can see,
of anyflmprovement, so long as the
negro 1 amongst us. Legal executions,
nor Ivfhlngs, nor fire has any terrors
r \ he. His highest ambition is to
)e aercourse with white women and
jis f will do, when he absolutely
■non/that death awaits him as soon
as h/is caught.
/ Tit® !e only one thing to do that
has >y promise of freeing our women
(rnnfhls slavery and terror, and that
thin is to send every one of the
ne J race out of the country. This
wlltiave to be done some time and
It iKht as well be done at once be-
fnr/thcre has. been mors outrages on
ouP'omen.
Ills admitted that difficulties pre-
1 themselves In connection with de-
i ig so large a number of people,
:hese difficulties had as well be
ome now in time to save the hon-
whlte women as well as the Uvea
any comparatively Innocent ne-
, for, be It understood, that when
see has ceased to be a virtue apd
the avenging mob has grown to
le the entire white population, the
ent negro will go down with the
r and at of them will be destroy
i would so many rattle snakes.
The follovlng are some of the dlf-
cultles to 1 be overcome in order to
take deputation successful. The
onsent of the negro, the consent of
he white San and a place to send him
o as well, as the cost of the enter
prise,'
THAT EDITORIAL ON LYNCHING,
To the Editor of The Georgian: (
I thank you—I congratulate our
country on the fact that we have an
editor of a great paper who la willing
to voice the real convictions of a great
people on a subject that Is of vital In
terest to our civilization. The real
truth and the real philosophy of lynch
ing Is just beginning to be made
known.
Judge Hlllyer's demand for more
speedy judicial methods, which was
adopted by the Southern Baptist con
vention last May, was on the right
line. The fact Is, we as a people
have been religiously at fault In the
punishment of crime. God's reason for
killing of criminals Is that the stain
of the crime might not rest on the
whole people. That reason given re
peatedly In the law of Moses shows
that God will hold society responsible
for the crime* It condones. In spite of
this, for 300 years the Iniquity of our
law-makers has been taxed to divine
ways and means for evading the law.
I believe that you are right—unless
some new and terrible penalty, quick
ly applied, may have the effect of de-
terlng the black rapists, the alterna
tive will be the'driving of the blaoks
out of our country, or the extinction
of their race In America.
After all, lynch law Is a crude ap
plication of the principle that justifies
the killing of a man who Is about to
commit a deadly felony, or Is caught
red-handed In the act.
J. L. D. HILLYER.
TRUE VERSUS ERRONE
OUS EVANGELISM
The coient of the negro ought to
he easily Wined. The leaders of that
race certlnly realize that they cannot
hone to Me to the front In competi
tion wltfthe superior race. They can
obtain f«lr desire to participate In
roveron/nt and rule themselves If they
hsve apuntry of their own.
The (nsent of the white man is a
more a|>°n* undertaking. It Is claim
ed by £ny that the negro la absolute
ly reofed as a laborer and that we
cannnS*et along without him. This
n n .|tiV assumes that we can not re
place h* negro with white men, or
that k are willing to have an ever-
ln, re/ing number of our women ruined
to brutes, that a few large
pi-njra may have their farms cult!
votf/whlle they take life easy. I am
surJhat the negro's place would soon
tm jken by white emigrants and that
would be better laborers than the
i. The North is more prosperous
white labor than Is the South with
egro. So are the counties of our
state which have largely white
ulation, more prosperous than those
ties containing large negro popu-
, n. But even If there was no hope
replacing the negro with whiten we
ely cannot afford to help him at so
eat a sacrifice, and he ought not be
zlous .to. remain until It Is necessary
totally exterminate him.
As to where to send him, I do not
w. We might give him his choice
this matter, stipulating only that he
as to get entirely out of the country,
le might give him some of the bor-
statea, buying the land from pres
ent owners and riving It over to the
negroes. If the consent of all parties
first he obtained and especially that of
the White .man, the matter of place
would easily be solved.
..s to cost, I suggest that the gov
ernment put up the money needed. We
certainly tan buy homes for these
negmes w»o are In a sense wards of
ihe nation, If we can afford to buy the
Philippine! for a people for whom we
were undtr no obligation. The honor
it one wpman -Is worth more than a
few hundred dollars necessary to buy
homes !/ the negro of the Southern
states. * .
To the Editor of Tht Georgian:
Aa the columns of The Georgian
seem open for the discussion of prob
lems pertaining to religion, for the
public enlightenment, I offer them the
following because I see occasion there
for.
Dr. Torrey and Mr. Alexander were
God's agents by whom the Christian
people of Atlanta were recently awak
ened and put Into activity for the
Christianization of their un-Chrtstlan
fellow citizens, to a degree to which
they had never before attained; but
much of the outworking of their zeal
In evangelism seems to be without a
sufficient and correct knowledge of the
means tbatjGod appointed for the ac-
pllshment of their object, as stated In
The Bible, add therefore misleading.
Evangelism Is making known to un-
Chrtstlan persons that they are, to at
least some extent, disobedient to what
they know to be God's laws of moral
righteousness; that the God-appointed
penalty for disobedience to any one or
more of God's laws of righteousness Is
physical dsath and eternal outcaatlng
from the favor and presence of God
thereafter, Into the companionship of
the opposere of God; that no person Is,
by original birth nature, In moral one
ness with God; that justice demands
that the penalty for sin must be Inflict
ed, and that, until this demand has
been compiled with, sin cannot be for
given, and the sinner stand as righte
ous before God; that the only way In
which this can be accomplished Is by
the subjection to death physical of a
person of God nature and man nature
combined, after having lived, aa a man,
subject and faultlessly obedient to the
moral laws appointed by God for man’s
observancs, after having been falsely
convicted -of violation of God's law, and
thua vicariously satisfying tbs demand
of justice for the Infliction of penalty
for man's sins; that, not of moral obli
gation, but of love, God provided such
a satisfaction of justice for man's sins,
applicable to whosoever will accept It,
In sending his God-natured son to
earth to live and die as a man. That
this person was Jesus (God's power to
deliver) of Nazereth, of whom we learn
through hlztory, ns recorded In the
Bible and other writings. That he rose
from among the dead, and ascended
from earth thereafter to hie former
dwelling place with God. That he was
to set up and rule over, and soon after
his ascension did set up anl begin to
rule over a government on earth and
elsewhere, In the regions of the depart
ed from earth, the citizens of which
are those persons who have accepted
the deliverance from the penalty for
sin that he accomplished, though they
are to retain, In this life, citizenship In
Its political government also. That
those who accept such deliverance
must, as a condition additional, of re
ceiving cltlsenshlp In his kingdom, be
W. L. WILLIAMSON.
shall/women wear
GUNS IN THEIR HAT8
To thsEdltor of The Georgian;
We md with a great'deal of Interest
and rrtnuragement In yesterday’s pa
pers i editorial on the subject, "Let
the uinen Arm Themselves."
In tew of the recent assaults that
have icurred In different parts of this
and her states, the suggestion is an
ezceljnt one and comes just at a time
»h™ public sentiment against such
nutrtea la at a pitch that leads the
to fully and heartily Indorse
tucim idea.
lf°me genius will only come along
hofmd tell the women where they are
to/rry such things as pistols, he will
2f r a great favor upon perplexed
Wanklnd whom we know to be ut-
W lacking In such useful things as
(rets.
READER. -
To the Editor of The Georgian;
Now that there Is united effort be.
Ing made to Induce emigration to Geor
gla, and If possible make her that for
which nature evidently Intended her, a
great agricultural state, and while an
old man long past the meridian of life,
yet as a native bom Georgian, I can
not but ask space In The Georgian,
nearest and dearest to her people, to
advocate that which I believe will be
for her benefit.
We have still in Georgia that which
Is known as the “head .right laws," but
there are no longer lands' upon which
the same la operative. Long since they
passed Into private ownership.
There are, however, thousands
acres of what are known as “wild, un
improved lands,” lying Idle, and which
ought to afford homes for hundreds of
thousands of people, but which are held
now for speculative purposes alone, and
while the owners In making tax returns
value them at a song, yet when some
body wants to buy a boms, place upon
the self same land almost a prohibitive
value.
It Is to the state's Interest that these
lands should be Improved, converted
Into homes, and render a proper reve
nue to the state. Is there any way by
which these speculators can be con;
trolled by which these waste * places
may be built up and made to blossom
like unto a roae garden by which you
cUn banish the lonely owl and replace
his dismal hoot with the ringing, laugh
of happy children? This Is the ques
tion. I think there is a remedy, and
now suggest It.
Great corporations are given the
right to enter and condemn any lands,
and they exercise this power day by
day, as we sky, for the good of the
state. Railroad company's exercise
this power unlimitedly; they enter,
! condemn, appraise and take possession
of the old homestead, with all Its clus
tering memories; they Invade, appraise,
condemn and take potaesslon of the
family cemetery, desecrate the ashes of
our beloved dead, and perhaps scatter
their bones along the public highway,
and all this is allowed In order to
build up the state.
If then this kingly power is psrmltted
these artificial persons, In this broad
sense, even where their action Is to
plunge, a loving survivor In deepest
grief, then why should it not be given
to a citizen, a natural person, a bona
fide home-seeker, and restrict his ex
ercise of the power to "wild, unim
proved lander' Yes, why not?
There Is no legal difficulty about
this. If there were, an amendment to
the state constitution could remedy this
and settle It forever nnd the good peo
ple of this state would quickly ratify
It regardless of the strenuous efforts
of landowners to prevent It.
Theae wild lands are vacant, they af
ford scanty revenue to the stats. Let's
see: There are Instances where the
owners return these tande for taxee for
a dollar per acre, yet in the same yeac
make‘sales of the self same lands for
even as. high as *10 and *20 per acre.
Now this Is simply swindling the state,
and wronging the bona fide taxpayer,
by Increasing his burden to make up
the deficit caused by—you name It
yourself. Like Brand, I advertise for
a word.
The remedy Is this: where the owner
at all, aa the case may be, then'let
the state exercise the right of eminent
domain for the benefit of the, settler,
proceeding upon the relation of that
settler.
Restrict the acreage allowed him to g
sufficiency for farming purposes to af
ford a good living for hlmielf and
family. No more, no less. In making
! entry compel! the settler to take the
land as It comes, to say good bad and
Indifferent, so that complete justice
may be dode the owner and likewise
to the settler.
Let the valuation placed upon that
specific land, per acre, govern In as
certaining the value of the land pro
vided he had so returned It for taxes,
for that or the proceeding year as well.
When so surveyed, out and platted by
the county surveyor, then let the set
tler enter, take possession and make
his home thereon, upon making or ten
dering payment to the owner, and If
refused, placing same In the court
registry subject to the owner's orders.
Now for the benefits <o the state thus
Insured. ■ >
Wild land owners will make proper
valuation on these lands In returning
them for taxes, and this will increase
the state's revenue from that source
to elx or more times what It Is now.
It will readily provide homes for
bona fide settlers and Induce emigra
tion of the agricultural class to otir
state. To say that emigration which
once went westerly will turn to .9n6
South, and Georgia will get .the' the
lion’s share of It.
It will atop the pernidoCis land spec
ulation which never benefited the state
and people.
By this means Georgia can be built
up compactly; It wlU become the great
est Agricultural stats, and her people
will be peaceful, prosperous and hnppy.
—Unless something akin to this Is done
will not sell at a reasonable figure, or it Is Idle to prate about emigration
Georgia. The land speculators will run
To the Editor of The Georgian: ,
If you will kindly pardon so great
an encroachment on your very valua
ble time. I beg the privilege of express
ing myself In regard to an editorial I
read In The Georgian on last Tuesday
evening, August 21.
In this editorial you nay:
"It the negro Were no longer a part
of our population, the women of the
South would be freed from their state
of Siege and would be at liberty to go
where they pleased and when they
pleased."
Do you not consider It a reflection on
the chivalry, loyalty and heroism of
our Southern white men to longer per
mit the existence of so deplorable a
state of affairs? Can we longer allow
the black slaves of our fathers, to
whom we have given freedom and edit-*
cation, to rob our women pt 'she free
dom and liberty they akdutd enjoy in
this our belovbd*' Southland, where
Christian civilisation should be main
tained at all costs? 1
This Is'lndeed a vital question to
day, and (one that demands of every
loyal white.man in the South a prompt
and active cO-operatlon In administer
ing the best possible remedy to the
"fiendish passion" of theae black de
mons—and such action can not be
taken too soon. The method of pun
ishment you have suggested Is Indeed
a good ons, and should be applied at
once. Should It fall, however, and we
be driven to a laet resort, do you think
we should hesitate In seriously consid
ering the final and permanent exter
mination of the negro? For, Is It not
at all times the honorable duty of every
Southern white man to fight to the
bitter end, and at all hazards, for the
safety and freedom- of Our pure and
noh)e women against a hostile, fiendish
ana Inferior race—a race of liberated
slaVes?
Very truly yours.
CALVIN F. CARLTON.
Atlanta, Ga_, Aug. 22, 1202.
8ITUATION 18 ACUTE.
the better class of emigrants out
the state by extortionate demands,
trust these suggestions here made may
be agitated, and bring out the beat
thoughts of our best thinkers.
Now, listen to the howl of the flee,
"Robbery, Robbery, Robbery."
FRANCIS H. HARRIS
’answer of a good conscience toward
God," by means of which "baptism does
now save ua,” of which Peter wrote. In
I Peter 3:21, and the "confession of our
hope” of Hebrews 10:22, and the "call
ing upon the name of the Lord" of Joel
2:28:22: Acta 2:21; and Acts 22:16, and
Romans 10:13 (see context v. 0., also
contexts of other references).Calllng on
the name of the Lord, aa used In Joel
2:28-22. A Hebrew Idiomatic way of
saying confessing, orally, or orally ac
knowledging to be Lord, and aa used
in the Acta and Romans passages cited,
It is simply a Hebrewism or a transfer
ence of the Hebrew Idiom into Greek
(See Hebrew and Greek lexicons.) It
was not, as used In these passages,
calling on God or Jesus in prayer, nor
was It. as modified $>y Acts 22:16, and
Hebrews 10:22, and I Peter 3:21, an
oral confession unaccompanied by bap
tism.
According to what I have stated,' a
person Is not "saved" by simply bsllef
and oral confession of his belief, nor
by belief and calling on God, In prayer,
to save him, but by belief and baptis
mal oral confession.
J. HA8BROUCK JOHNSTON.
Hotel Grant, August 20, 1906.
EVOLUTION AND CHRISTIANITY,
THAT BAND OF CHIL-
DREN IN THE STREET
made able and willing to obey God's
laws, which are the laws of that king
dom, by being Impregnated with the
God nature,’ by the God spirit. That
this Is accomplished and with It admis
sion Into citizenship In the kingdom,
as the candidate for such citizenship
undergoes the Initiatory Into cltlxen-
shlp rites, appointed by Jesus while
he was on earth. This rite Is a spoken
acknowledgment, of confession, of be
lief in what I have stated, together
with that of belief that Jesus, when he
has gathered all of the citizenship Into
His kingdom will return to earth to
bring before Him for trial and adjudi
cation, all mankind, haring first
brought all the dead of It to life, this
confession to be Immediately followed
by an application of water to the body,
known aa baptism, symbolic of death
from the former life In sin, and opposi
tion to God, as the body of the dead
was bathed tn preparation of It for en
tombment. ’ • . ,
This baptismal confession, as handed
down to us from the patriotic age of
Christianity, is: •
"I believe In God almighty. • and In
Jesus, the anointed, His son our Lord.
who was bom of a virgin, crucified un
der Pontius Pilate, rose from among
the dead on the third day, and ascend
ed Into heaven, whence he will come to
Judge the living and the deadr and In
the Holy Spirit.”
Assent to this declaration or stipula
tion. which was first stated by the per-
aon administering the baptism,-1* tbs
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The article on the front page of Frl.
day's Georgian, with the headlines,
"Band of Children In Streets Singing
and Begging for Alms Arouses the
Mayor to Action," has created some
comment in this section of south Geor
gia, as did a previous report, a week
or so ago, in The Atlanta Journal.
From the Journal's report, we gathered
that .the meetings held by these chil
dren were very affecting and not at
all for Just merely "to gather In shekels
for personal or other uses,” as stated
in The Georgian on Friday. No doubt,
though, they might have had a col
lection in view, and Judging from the
report In your paper, a dollar could not
be better placed.
We gather from your article that an
old gentleman named Harwell, aged 68
years, and his wife, about 60 years old,
nave been supporting about 26 children
at Nos. 62 and 64 South McDaniel
street, for which house they pay 640
rent per month, and that they have
nothing to rely on except help from
God. The above plain statement of
facts Is surely enough to touch the
hardsst heart and to bring honor and
reverence to those two old souls, for
ths heavy labor of love they have taken
upon themselves In their old age, and
enough to bring all Georgia, not to
speak of Atlanta, to them and those
26 helpleee children'! eld. But Inetead
of that, their effort has been hetij up
aa a subject of scorn and their action
aa criminal and deserving the energetic
action of the "powers that be,” becauae
they had these children singing hymns
on the street at 8 o’clock. I can not
Imagine that that old fond mother
heart would be guilty of anything that
would injure these dear children. It
seems that the principal charges
against this old couple are having the
children out In street meetings, not
having enough clothes to put on, or
enougn food to give them; having no
well appointed school room in which to
teach them; and, no doubt, there could
be many more charges on these lines
successfully proven, all of which the
old man and old woman at 64 South
McDaniel street would no doubt plead
guilty to and maybe cried over many
a time. They did the beat they could
no doubt. God bless them tor It! Let
ue not blame them for what they
could not do. And In the name of hu
manity let us all rise up and show
our appreciation of what the dear old
souls have done by comlnr to their
help with our means and thereby glad
den the hearts of old Mr. and Mrs.
Harwell by giving the twenty-five or
phans plenty to eat and plenty to wear.
Yea, but why not send them to regular
orphanges, so many of which ye have?
Admission to many of these Is sur
rounded by such conditions that shut
out some. Besides, there Is room for
one more and especially just such a
home as this, where It seems their
spiritual want is especially looked aft
er. Know you not that the largest nr-
R hanage in the world, that of George
luller, Bristol, England, wan started
and maintained on Just such lines as
it seems the McDaniel home is—the
much scorned—faith in God to provide?
I'm glad the great mayor of Atlanta is
moved to action—that Oovernor Terrell
Is willing to give his help—and that
General Clement A. Evans' sympathy la
In the movement. I sincerely hope they
will nil co-operate on linen suggested In
this letter and not as they flrat Intend
ed. and then If we only get the pen of
the able editor of The Georgian peald-
Ing for the two old gray-headed people
and the twenty-five dear children, who
knows but that aome day there will be
an orphanage on South McDaniel
street, Atlanta, Ga., larger than that
of George Muller, In Bristol England?
Oh, God plant In us hearts of sympa
thy!
Yours respectfully,
Aahburn, Ua.
J. LAWRENCE
To the Editor of The Georgian;
There appeared In The News an-artl
cle under the above caption, signed
“Enquirer." He asks for information
relating to the above.
He makes the mistake of trying to
measure evolution or the body of man,
aa It Is and as It has been, by the
standard of Christianity, or what the
body of man is to be. Evolution argues
with man face to face, Christianity
argues with him as he is to be in "an
other" life and |n another world.
Evolution Is a word coined to deal
with the changes which have taken
place In the man's body since its In
ception to the present time and Its
future time fn this planet.
Evolution Is not coined to suit or
to apply to any other world than
this, or to any other body of man than
the one we have and see about ua each
day.
Evolution deals with man under the
different phases of his nhyslcal being;
hence we have the protoplasmic-man.
the ape-man, the savage-man, and the
hu-man, or what we conceive to be the
end or perfection of the man body.
Altruism Is the thought, mind or
progressive thing in the man body,
which la the incentive and Initial force
which looks ahesd to the higher de
velopment of ths body, and to which
the body conforms In order to fulfil
the design as drawn by ths altruistic
thought. i .
Evolution refers to the body of man
as a laborer or as a machine to do tbs
will of Its master, which Is the altru
istic spirit within him.
Evolution and Dltrulsm live by and
through the labor of the man laborer
or man machine. The difference be
tween a dug-out, or bank canoe, and
an ocean atnamshlp or between a atone
headed arrow and a breech-loading
cannon measures the altruistic Im
provement in the mechanical develop
ment of the man laborer or machine.
The difference between a protoplaa
mic man and the man with the ocean
steamship or the breech-loading can
non Is the measure of the improvement
or development of the body of man, so
that he can fulfil the altruistic thought
In the ocean steampshlp and in the
breech-loading cannon.
The Improvement In the body of man
then Is'manifest In his works, or Is
industrially manifested. We have no
Christian, atheist or thelst ships or
developed altruistically In man, and
carried out or perfected by the human
body.
Thus evolution and altruism deal with
man as a human being and In no other
way. The laws of nature are not al
tered or changed to suit our opinions,
politically, religiously or otherwise, but
deals with all or us Impartially alike.
Thus Is evolution the changed thing
brought about through the altruistic
or changed thought. Hence there Is no
atheist, thelst or Christian evolution or
altruism, but simple human develop
ment.
W. A. JOHNSON.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22, 1106.
M JUNIU8’’ MAKES FIERY APPEAL.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Let me thank you from the bottom of
my heart for your grand editorial on
the suppression of these awful crimes
by black brutes on our women.
How low have our Southern men
fallen when they can tolerate the pres
ence of a race that furnishes such
fiends! I had rather see every dollar
of the South's wealth swept out of
existence than to sea these crimes on
our wbmen continue. It can't be en
dured!
The greatest war of ancient times,
the Trojan war, was caused by the rape
of one woman. Think of the thou-
aanda of our outraged Southern women
by black brutes and Southern men
still endure it! For what? Tell me
why this goes on for one single day?
I can tell you—for the negro's labor—
to get more wealth for the 8outh out of
him. It Is commercialism willing to
trade on ravished white women! Oh,
proud Anglo-Saxon race, chivalrous
cavaliers of the South, you once were
kingly men, lords of cre.y.lon, but you
have aold your birthright for a mesa
of pottage! You have fallen too low
to act. as protectors of your women!
God knows this is the sad, aad truth!
By a negro the rape of one white wom
an should have sufficed for the re
moval or extermination of the entire
negro race.
I Join with you. Colonel Graves, in
throwing the awful responsibility for
lowed. The same way at Cedartown,
Ga.
Atlanta and Fulton county are ..
disgrace to the stats. Ths men there
should hang their heads In shame.
They are not worthy to protect their
women, or their society. The negro
brute that attacked Mrs. Moore was
msde a hero of before they "legally” (?)
banged him. So are every one of them
regarded by their race when they are
dignified by a farcical court trial In
these cases. Down with all delays and
fomalltlea In theae cases, and let Jus
tice and vengeance come swift and ter.
rlble, with all the torture that can be
devised.
As for myself, I had rather see
race war, yea, a war of extermination,
begin tomorrow than to hear of an
other pure white woman being ravished
by a black brute! LET IT COME! f
utter a curse against every white man
In the South If this crime Is allowed
to continue.
Call back the days of the Ku-Klux!
Let Southern white men show them
selves worthy of their sires. Languagi
falls me to express myself on thli
subject. Things have gotten to where
there seems no time for w.ords.
I say, let every Southern city and
town and village and community call
mass meetings. Let our men be there.
Ask every negro to be there. Make
them come. At these meetings talk
the negroes. Tell them our demands.
Let them understand our ultimatum.
Warn them. Then let the white men
organize In a solid phalanx and give
the negroes to understand that it la
race war and death to every one If as
a race they do not atop this crime, it
will not do to dally any longer. The
papers are full of this crime. AH over
the South little girls 7 years old and
old gray-halred mothers are being at
tacked dally, as well as other women.
The lust fiends show no mercy or
discrimination.
When these cases occur the newspa
pers spurt for a little while and then
It Is all over until another victim, n
sweet virtuous woman, la sacrificed
to "Southern commercialism."
The negroes seem to know that
Southern white men will allow their
women to be sacrificed to get and keep
the negro's labor. And baa It come to
this In our proud, beautiful Southland?
Oh, my people, my people, to what
depths have you fallen!
"JUNIUS.
Rome, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906.
SOME OTHER WAY8 TO PROTECT,
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Your editorial In .yesterday's Geor
gian, with regard to the unmentionable
crime, was timely and to the point. I
would, however, like to suggest a meth
od by which the colored race may see
that It will be to their Interest to
make some attempt In assisting the
white people In stopping this crime for
which the only remedy Is lynch law.
The suggestion which I desire to make
for your careful consideration Is as
follows:
Advocating in an editorial the Im
mediate discharge of every colored man
In the city of Atlanta from any and
every position In which he must neces
sarily come In contact with white
women. This would include the coach
men, ths revoking all negro licenses
for handling automobiles, even to the
delivery of goods to private residences.
Your Idea of personal mutilation Is
good, but it comes too late. Let's con
tinue to kill all nsgroea who commit
the unmentionable crime, and ■ make
ounuchs of all the new male Issues
before they are eight days old.
Faithfully yours,
B. A. PUGIN.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906.
8TOP VAGRANCY)
LYNCHING CEASE8
this racial crime on the leaders of the
negro race. They have not done their
duty In this matter. This Is known of
all men. Hold the race responsible
from now on. When were negroes ever
known to help run down a rapist?
During past years we have had two
of these crimes In Floyd county, and,
_ far as I know, not a neifro helped
to catch the criminal—not- a church
or negro society passed a resolution
condemning the crimes. In both of
these cases a lynching promptly fol-
To the Editor of the Georgian:
Allow me to give my convictions on
the matter of lynching.
Stop vagrancy and lynching ceases.
Let Atlanta put ten pickets mounted to
keep the circuit up of the not thickly
settled, then ten more pickets outside
of that line. Insist that every block
or white man be accounted for or ar
rest same. You cannot prepare a wo
man for self defense, a few only. If
nil counties of the state would form
for each county, I believe the lynching
would cease for need of material. When
caught and convicted, castrate and
brand on forehead. Respectfully.
EDWARD S. LATHROP.
Decatur, Ga., Aug. U, 1906.
THE GEORGIAN STRUCK
THE KEY NOTE
THE NORTH 18 IN SYMPATHY.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The people, especially those who live
in the rural districts, owe you more
than thanks for the timely and ring
ing editorial In which very recently
you set forth the horror which hourly
threatens every white woman In the
country districts of Georgia and the
South.
Lynching, as you suggested, does not
seem In the slightest degree to meet
the case. Tour suggestion of severe
physical treatment and branding has
been made repeatedly in the past, but
so haltingly thut It made no Impres
sion on the public mind. The situation
Is terribly acute. Close following upon
the heels of that awful occurrence In
one of Atlanta's popular suburbs, Co-
penhltl, came another last Sabbath
afternoon in North Carolina.
A young miss, 16 years of age, left
her home to visit the daughter of a
neighbor half a mile distant. Night
coming on, and the young lady not
having returned home, the anxious fa
ther went to the neighbor's home. He
was told his daughter had not been
there. He returned homeward, almost
crazed with anxiety. He found his
daughter In a pit In one of his
fields near the public road—dead. She
had fallen Into the hands of a brute.
These things are of dally occurrence
almost. The people cannot, ought not,
will not permit the situation to con
tinue as it Is.
It Is well enough for those whose
loved ones are perfectly safe In the
center of city or town to talk about
the majesty of the law. There Is a
higher law to which the people must
appeal If they would guarantee abso
lute protection to the mothers, sisters
nnd daughters throughout the country
districts. I noticed your worthy con
temporary, The Atlanta Journal, ad
visee the women to arm themselves
and tn practice shooting. Good, but
that will not do of Itself.
The Idle and the vicious are those
who commit the crime we have In
mind. They must be run down and
run out. i
1 believe that the young men In the
country should organise at once,
each militia district, one or more coin
panles of-‘‘Red Shirts" and set their
faces against Idle and vicious negroes
wherever found. Let It go out that
they must get steady work nnd be
able to show a clean character or
"move on.” I remember. In the cam
pnlgn of 1876 In South Carolina, that
one blast on the bugle horn of one
Red Shirt" rider was equal to a
thousand men. That blast reduced
chaos to order. The sight or Jcnowl
edge of the close presence of a com
pany of "Red Shirts” had a most mar
velous effect over negroes who other
wise would have been rapacious.
Let the command, "Move on," ring
throughout the rural districts with
distinctness that will not admit
moment's hesitancy on the part of the
brutal class to which It Is addressed.
I trust that the weekly press of the
state will promptly adopt and ' urge
upon their readers your manly ac
claim: "Our Women Must and' Shall
Be Protected." This menace, which,
like a terrible nightmare, hangs over
every country home, must be I:
stantly removed.
MARTIN V. CALVIN.
Augusta, Ga.
“BE8T PAPER IN THE 80UTH."
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Although I am a total stranger to
you I write thla as a young man and a
citizen of Georgia to express my ap
preciation of your newspaper, The
Georgian.
In my humble opinion the editorial
page of The Georgian Is the best in
the South, and for genuine merit not
surpassed by any such section of any
paper In the whole country. All the
rest of the paper la conducted on an
equally high standard, and the paper
i a whole presents to the reader a
ell balanced report of all the news
' the day.
I hope that your paper will always
be as clean, newsy and reliable as It is
now, and that your circulation will In
crease as much aa the paper merits,
would like to see The Georgian have
paid subscription, of 60,000 at the end
of two years.
With sincere wishes for the success of
The Georgian, I am, respectfully,
O. W. PAS8AVANT.
Newnan, Ga., Aug. 22, 1906.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I desire to Indorse most heartily
your editorial, "The Way to Save Our
Women," which appeared In yester
day's Georgian.
I think you have struck the key
note. That sentiment should be taken
up by every newspaper In Georgia and
Its suggestions made a reality at once.
Respectfully, J. P. MONROE
Abbeville. Ga.
Farmers Feel it Most.
To the Editor of Tho Georgian:
While I have not the pleasure of un
acquaintance with you personally, yet
I must confess to having for you a very
great admiration as a writer, an editor
and on orator. From the depths of my
heart I thank you for your editorial of
yesterday, headed "How to Save the
"'omen."
My dear sir, you are on the right
lines. Let every editor speak out as
you have done and personate the lead
ers, holding them responsible for the
lawlessness of their race and 1 must
think good would come from It. As I
am a native of Georgia, I have felt
great concern for the well being of
the state. I noted with regret the at
titude of The Constitution, together
with many of the leading citizens on
the disfranchisement question. It
must come either one way or the other.
Do continue on that line and with the
same boldness that characterized the
editorial I spoke of.
I am too unwell and nervous to at
tempt to write more. I am 72 years
old, born and raised In LaGrange, Ga.,
have been honored with scale In both
branches of our Alabama legislature
several times. With high regards,' I
am, Yours truly,
JOHN T. HARRIS. .
OoelUu. Ala- Aug. 24.
To the Editor of The.Georgian:
In your editorials In The Georgian
during the paat week regarding the ee-
rlee of crimes committed lately by ne
gro fiends, you have commenced a work
which the South will always thank and
remember you for. Keep It upl Keep
It up until the negro is forced by
terror and fear of punishment to de
sist from his horrible crimes, or Is
driven from the Southland. Send him
up North, where they, like him so well.
Mr. Attnnta Georgian, It Is up to you
to follow the suggestion, of one of the
loyal Southerners, to organize a "Ku-
Klux."- With an organization such as
you might be most Instrumental In
forming great good could be done. It
will be a long time before the state nr
Federal government will take action to
protect our women, and meantime shall
we allow these fiends In human form
to terrorize our women? No, a thou
sand times no' Let the men take it
Into their hands, and mete out the Just
punishment. But a secret organization
could do wonders toward accomplishing
this end.
Would that we had such an effective
police system of ths rural districts as
has our neighboring republic, Mexico. I
lived two years In the tropics of that
country, and have a very high respect
for the efficiency of their "rurales." I
have never heard of a case of murder,
or serious crime, in the rural districts
of Mexico, In which the murdetfer was
not caught and punished within a short
time after committing the crime. Why
could not the great Empire State of
the South have such an effective system
of protecting her cltzens, and more es
pecially her women?
last The Georgian continue In Its
efforts until such a system.of patrolling
■al districts Is perfected that
taut In absolute si
K world can do I
1 In the protection
of the noblest and best gift that God
has given man—OUR WOMEN.
Most sincerely.
SOUTHERNIZED NORTHERNER.
Atlanta, August 26, 1906.
OFFERS *100 TO START REWARD.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Your editorial yesterday afternoon
on the subject of negro raplats was a
grand expression, and I thank you for
It. The point you made about our wom
en protecting themselves should be
heeded by every woman and girl in ths
South.
To encourage thla action and to en
deavor to strike fear to these brutes,
I should like to give 2100 on subscrip
tion list for *10,000 to be given to
every woman who kills her assailant.
I should like for matters to change
so that every lovely girl or woman
would cause every negro who might
pass her to turn out of her pathway
on penalty of being shot dead. Also
that our women would Instantly shoot
lo kill every negro whose presence
might be detected around her prem
ises.
It Is time now for the fear and dread,
the suffering, and. even the Inconven
ience, to be shifted to ths race who has
caused It, even If thousands of them
who are Innocent have to suffer. .
Let every negro fiend know that a
prise of *10,000 hangs abovo his. dead
tody, and let every woman realize what
a heroine she would make of herself.
If she should so protect her honor.
I pledge *100 to this fund: surely
there are ninety-nine others who will
do likewise.
Yodrs very truly,
JNO. A. MANGHJT.
Atlanta, Ga., August *6, 1900.
PROTECTION OF OUR HOMES.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I waa the author of the article sign
ed "Citizen" In yesterday's Georgian.
I will reserve my name, as I am writ
ing for the protection of Southern wo.
men. I want to congratulate The
Georgian on being first to espouse this
cause In an editorial that has attracted
wide attention. Let every Souther*!
newspaper copy ths article.
Violation of law Is anarchy, unless
to keep the law Is negro supremacy,
or negro assaults, etc. Then principle
comes In and know* no law. It la un
fortunate that ths Southern people
have ever had to be lawbreakers. For
thirty years we have had to violate the
law by counting the “negro out" In
elections. We had to do this or have
negro supremacy. Now. we are In
shape to leave him out without the vio
lation of law. The assault matter Is
not fixed yet, and we shall Just have
to violate and mob until It is fixed.
The sooner It Is fixed, the better for
ajt concerned. I see that a Baptist
gathering In the Carolina*, condemn
lawbreakers. Methodist gatherings
have done the same. I wonder If any
of them ever had to help "count the
election" to keep the negro out. I am
a church man, but I would not have
an easier Job than to raise 100,000 Bap
tists or Methodists any time our homes
need protection, law or no law. Fix
ing the law is what we want
1. Let The Georgian keep up the fight.
Let all the papers copy.
2. Let us have a general mass meet
ing of white citizens and let Hoke
Smlth and John Temple Graves be the
orator* of the occasion.
3. Let us haye a general meeting of
the states soon, and get thla matter
before the nation.
4. Let us send a petition 100 miles
long to tho governor of North Carolina
asking hlm : to pardon the mob leader.
I am opposed to mobs, but I am more
opposed to their cause. Let us remove
the cause. CITIZEN.
Atlanta. Ga.
P. S.—You give the women pistols,
and some old. drunken husband would
get hla brains shot out before a week.
Southern women, we will stand by you.
regardless of method.