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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
P. L. SEELY, President.
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The Real Spirit of Southern White Men.
Let Tho Georgian glvo you an Inatanco of tho real
feeling of Southern whtto men toward the right kind of
negroea.
On Tuesday wo recorded tho proffer of personal and
military service by the College Park negroea to the
white men of that suburb In repelling nny hand of reck
less and Irresponsible negroea who might ever disturb
the town.
On Tuesday evening thero was a leellng of gonoral
unrest In the city and suburbs over what Beeraed n
well founded rumor that n disorderly force was gather
ing from all sections of tho county to rcndeavous nt
East Point and to beat and terrorise tho negroes of
East Point and College Park.
At 7 o’clock the mayor of College Park ordered
every negro to be at home for safety by 8 o'clock—an
order which was promptly obeyed.
Then the white men of College Park held a confer
ence over their telephones and In peraonnl conversation,
and unanimously agreed that In view of the admirable
way In which the College Park negroes bad behaved In
this crisis that tbe white men of College Park would not
permit them to be mistreated by any mob from any
where, and that If necessary they would protect them
at the point of their gttna.
This la the real bottom spirit of every Southern
white man to every negro whom ho knows to be good
and worthy.
In Its last analysis there are no people undor tho
sun who are as kindly and helpful to the right sort of
negro as the Southern white man. We are the only
people on earth who know and appreciate them, and for
such negroes as those that live at College Park there
will alwaya be found such- white meu as live at Col
lege Park to defend them.
The Evil .Element of Both Races.
In the terrible munldral ami county tragedies of the
last seven weeks culminating on Saturday night, both
the white race and the negro race have been tbe victims
of their worst and least representative elements.
No man knows honor than tho editor of The Georgian
that the crime of rape which goaded this people to a Anal
and terrible vengeance does not represent the indorse
ment or the approval of the better element or the ma
jority element of the negro race.
The Georgian Itself hat made that tact 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 co-operation of the leading negroes
with the white man In tbe warfare against thsse assaults
upon white women. This was our position, strongly as
sumed, and at loast earnestly defended. Wo advocated
any form of business reprisal or of business withdrawal
which might be necessary to compel the editors, teach
ers, preachers and leaders of the negro race to give leas
time to the denunciation of lynching mid more time and
space to the preaching and teaching of hell and damnation
for the greattr crime of assaulting white women. And we
have borne cheerful and hearty testimony to the fact that
these negro teachers and editors and preachers have with
commendable loyalty and admirable feeling acceptod
this suggestion and have given us such co-operation as
has never been given beforo In the suppression of the
crlmt of crimes.
We ere Just as confident as we live that tbe fruit of
this loyal cooperation will be seen later, and wo cannot
fall to express now end at all timet our hearty apprecia
tion of the good tense end of the Christian support dis
played by these leading negroes In this advocacy.
We know moreover that these men represent the
majority of the negro nee, and that the Crimea recently
committed against white women were the acts of fren
zied and bestial brutes who represent tho more vicious
ilement of the negro race. It Is well to keep this fact In
mind, and these two -acts. The non-representative char
acter of the criminal and the strong moral support of the
negro leader should both be remembered at nny future
time In which Southern people might be stirred to tho
frenty of another physical vengeance from an accumu
lative series of negro assaults.
And we know Just as well that the recent mob In At
lanta was not composed of the representative and thought
ful people of thta city. It was largely composed of wild
young men, eager, passionate, adventurous, filled with hot
blood and eager to avenge without deliberation yr without
discrimination the most damnable of crimes against the
women of the South.
To these were Joined those reckless and Irresponsible
bends of hoodlums which belong to all communities and
who are ever ready for any trouble or disturbance which
offers a vent to their passions.
The nets 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 Is all over, the problem to be solved Is
how the better elements of both races can control here
after tbe 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 of
the rapists and second of the rioters are to be strongly
and fiercely condemned, as they have been.
But we do not share in the expressed opinion that
Atlanta la going to be shamed and stigmatised and stain
ed for any length of time by the record of this period,
If all the cities Without tin or riotous records In
this republic should throw stones at Atlanta, there
would not be enough in the falling shower to build a
child's playhouse on the side of tbe room.
What city, for Instance, would cast tbe flrst stone
at Atlanta? Certainly not New York, the metropolis of
the republic, for on a 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 and authority, were
made reeking shambles of broken heads and battered
noses and splintered arms of the negroes of New York,
assaulted, broken, beaten and sought to be killed by a
wild mob of Now York people upon a provocation that
did not touch the lower rung of tbe ladder on which At
lanta's indignation rose to a Anal and fierce expression.
Certainly not Chicago, where not once, but twice or
three times in the present decade, the great metropolis ot
the west, with Its maudlin negrophlllsm (In spots) has
mobbed negroes In the streets and chased them In death
dealing riots in their owi particular quarter of the tjlty,
and once had a rope around the neck ot a negro to hang
him to a lamp post on State etreet for snatching a
pocketbook from the arm of a shopper In one of the
stores. •
Certainly not Wilmington, Del., nor I-cavenworth, Kan.,
which set a new fashion and broke all records In the
horriblo tragcdlos of burning negroes to death.
Certainly not Danville, Ills., nor Evansville, Ind.,
nor Felicity, Ohio, nor Pana, nor Cartersvllle, nor Topeka
nor I^iwrence, Kansas, nor a hundred towns who
live In glass houses stained with the record ot more
violent riots than Atlanta has oven heard of, and for a
provocation by comparison Infinitely small.
The sporadic bursts of a few Northern newspapers
who are compelled to write their pious homilies and to
record their dutiful protests, may roast Atlanta for a
season and disregard the strong and forceful protests that
our own people hnve made against the crimes of both
races.
Four million readers of tho New York, Washington,
Chicago. Cincinnati and St. Louts papers read on Mon
day the full, Btrong statement of Atlanta's provocation,
as written by the editor of The Georgian.
But In the courso of time the cities and the newspa
pers will recall the record of their own mad excesses
under serious provocation, and accepting tho 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 jnst as
good, even If they have thought It Just as bad, as tbe
other cities ot the United States.
Let Us Postpone Clansman.
The Coming of Thomas Dixon's “Clansman" to the
Grand opera houso of Atlanta next month ahould be post
poned.
It Is not good policy to havs It at this time.
We do not go as far as'some of the timorous and
feeble-minded in condemning Tom Dixon's play. It has
some strong points and crystallises some great funda
mental principle! which our civilisation ought to hear
at Intervals.
But the present period In Atlanta Is distinctly un
favorable to any good thing that might come out of Mr.
Dixon’s play.
If the upper gallery ahould be filled with blacks, as
It was when "Tho Clansman” was here before, and the
lower house with white people, and If the whites, ap
plauding wildly every allusion to white supremacy and
eternal superiority, as they did before, should he an
swered by the blacks as they were before, breaking Into
eager yell*, at the strong statement of racial equality
and Intermarriage, this particular act might be conclud
ed with a tragedy akin to one In Booth’s theater In the
April ot 1865.
If Gus, the negro vlllnln o( the play, should be seen
by the second gallery skulking In the shadow ot that
tender llttlo girl with rape In his head and his eyes,
the chances are not small that Qua (who Is a fine fellow
In hla own character) might go home with a bullet In
his body as a reminder of the second gallory’s excited
prejudices.
So let us postpone “The Clansman,” Mr. DeGive,
until we have had time to quiet down a little and we can
hear Mr. Dixon’s famous play later In the season.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
New York city has, ready for duty In the Btate mili
tia, 10,367 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 seats than the churches have.
OUR PLATFORM—The Georgian stands for Atlanta’s Owning its own gas and elec
tric light plants, as it now owns its water wor^s. Other cities do this and get gas as low as 60 cents,
with a prof l to tbe city. This should be done at once. The 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 underlaying. Still Atlanta should set its face in that direction NOW
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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 ot the con
duct of these disorderly, whisky drink
ing men at the home: 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 djd, before the com
mittee or elsewhere. Is absolutely false.
\V. H. HARRISON.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
CAP7. HARRISON REPLIES
70 THE RECENI CARD OF
REPRESENTA1IVE WILLIAMS
To the Editor of The Georgian:
In your Saturday's Issue you pub
lished a communication from Mr.
George W. Williams, a member of the
Joint committee appointed by the gen
eral assembly to Investigate the Sol
diers' Home, which demands aomc no
tice.
First, I desire to say that I have
never seen the publication In “an At
lanta paper” purporting to quote what
t said about the report .of the com
mittee. Shortly after tho committee
adjourned, and after their report had
been given to the press, some of the
reporters callqd at my office while
making their rounds of the capitol for
news Items. One of thero 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 he
submitted to the next session of the
general assembly to assemble In June,
1907, and that until that 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 deart with Just ns they
had been, patiently but firmly.”
-lalmed that I had any pow-
The population of Germany on July 1 was 61,102,000,
an Increase of 8,360,000 In ten yean.
In Mohammedan countries women are not admitted
beyond tbe doorways of mosques.
Central American porters carry their burdens In a
chairlike contrivance strapped on their backs.
The land area of tbe United States la 1,900,947.200
acres. The area of Great Britain aud Ireland Is 77,671,319.
Tho number of pereont employed In the mines of the
world is about 5.000,000, of whom one-fifth are In Great
Britain.
Samuel Bradbeer, who died at Pltmlnster, England;
the other day at 82, bad sung 70 year* in tbe parish
church choir. *
I never
er to suspend, or dismiss any Inmate
from the home. I never said "wc will
continue to expel the Inmates," and It
the reporter so stated he misquoted
what I said at the time. I have never
claimed that 1 was any more than the
secretary of the hoard of trustees.
Mr. Williams then goes on to say:
"The only place In the recent Investi
gation whore Captain Harrison was
very active was hla energetic defense
of the shameful mismanagement of the
home In the past and his bitter denun
ciation of the Inmates of the home.”
This staeinent does the trustees and
myself gross Injustice. There has not
been any “ahameful mismanagement”
of the home, and I hnve never "bitterly
denounced the Inmates."
The trustees hnve had a difficult
task to perform: they have many dif
ficulties to contend against. They have
been compelled to discipline a limited
number of 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 ngnlnst
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
The names of these men and the
causes for their suspension have been
kept out of the papers as far ns pos
sible: not because they deserved any
favors, but because they have rela
tives and friends outside, whom the
trusters did not desire to distress by
giving undue publicity to tho miscon
duct of these unfortunate Inmntes.
There are In the home about one
hundred splendid otd 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 made for their
protection and to render the home a
clenn, quiet, orderly place where they
can rest In thetr old age.
Tho trustees have found, on the other
hand, a number of Inmates who have
been and are hAbltual drunkards.
Men who have token refuge In the
home because thetr bad habits In the
past hnve caused them to lose their
property, thetr friends, thetr homes and
destroyed thetr usefulness In nny of
the walks of life. This class, ns a rule,
are not the old, feeble, decrepit men.
Many of them are, comparatively
speaking, able-bodied, nble to earn
thetr own living, If they would let li
quor alone. Rut they prefer to drink,
and bring unable to keep sober, they
lank up and create disorder at the
home.
Thank God there are only a few of
this class, but a small number In the
home are enough to require very rigid
rulee against drunkenness.
These men when they are disciplined
and finally turned, away, cry out "cru
elty, abuse, mismanagement,'' etc., and
they have to some extent prejudiced
the public mind against the home.
The trustees have had trouble In se
curing the right kind of officials. And
It may be true that nome of the In
mates have been treated unkindly. The
board 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 official. Two superin
tendents have been discharged P>r bad
management. Other subordinates, have
been turned off. At times the cooking
has not been at good as It should have
been. These things are unavoidable
and happen everywhere.
The trustees ordered the superin
tendent, the surgeon and purchasing
agent to- spare no pains or expense
necessary to properly care for these
men. The records show these facts.
The truetees are going to continue
to do their full duty to these old he
roes, and to the state. There has been
nothing shameful in their conduce and
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 sen
slon of tbe general assembly.
The trustees never assailed him.
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 hla 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 hundreds 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 Bhowed 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 partlclo 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, “Fay them their pensions and
let them live like kings.” Few men
will believe that an old, decrepid man.
without home or family, enn live upon
35 por month. At 5 rents per meal his
food would cost him 34.50 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 fiecrepld Confederate vet
eran, unable to earn a dollar, can "live
like a king" on 35 per month, what
earthly excuse cun Mr. Williams ad
vance for voting himself 3120 per
month and mileage 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 33 per day (when he only remained
In Atlanta from Sunday evening until
Saturday night) besides his 34 per diem
for eight days’ service as a member
of this committee, which met Monday,
September 10, nt noon, and adjourned
about 2 p. m. Saturday, September 15,
1908? This, too. In face of the fact
that the resolution Introduced by him
self only provided for the 34 per diem,
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 witnesses presented by the
"prosecution” stated that a number of
the Inmates Imd been dealt with harsh
ly and turned out by the trustees for
making complaints of their treatment
nt the home, Captain William S. Thom
son and myself both asked the witness
to name the Inmates who had been
thus punished for complaining—this
same fair-minded, unprejudiced mem
ber of the committee, the Hon. G.
Washington Williams, objected to the
question being 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 he 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, "I do not want to hear
them.” Now, If the letter had been a
denunciation of tho trustees, or Dr.
Fox, or myself, tho aforesuld O. 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 thetr
best efforts to carry out the law and
manage the Confederate home for the
benefit of the worthy, decrepid old
men sheltered there—men who, nt
much sacrifice to themselves, have for
years cared for these old heroes?
Will fair-minded Georgians condemn
these men upon the suggestion of this
little plneywooda lawyer, who says this
"fight" was forced upon him? His po
sition as a member of the general as
sembly can 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 the
attacks upon the board and himself.
Mr. Williams may sneer at the writer
and seek to make capital by parading
before the public as a reformer and an
enemy of mismanagement and misuse
of public funds, but In this so-called
Investigation he will and ought to falL
Ills given name, the synonym of vs-
SEPTEMBER 26.
1777—British under Lord Itowe entered
rtillnilelphtn.
1T99—French raptured Zurich, Switzerland.
1810— Ilnttle of [tusseo.
1820— Iinnlet Ilooue, Kentucky pioneer, died.
Horn February 11, 1735.
1872—Clinrles T. Yerkes, convicted of em-
hesxllng funds of Philadelphia, par
doned.
1811— Flrat time table of tbe Canadian I’a-
clfle railway leaned.
1899-Hewey arrived In New York en the
Olympia.
1906— France and Germany reached
New York, Sept. 26.—Here are some
of tho visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Mrs. O. Dodd, L Lteb-
rnnn, C. Blaster, J. A. W. Dohler
SAVANNAH—W. S. Heyward, W
W. Osborne, J. Palmer, Mrs. F o’
Bootey, E. S. Elliott. - '
A Secretary’s Diary. ’<
' By WEX JONES,
MONDAY—Three women suing me now.
Damages claimed, 1180,003. Wanted to «e«
8nggfetnore fill! and couldn't, so they try
to soak me. Life la dreary.
TUESDAY—Row on about pier* In Clota.
ter Buy. Have ln»en fold to atop It, ni
It brings place Into wrong kind of noto
riety. How can I stop a woman with a
shotgun or a bunch o? commissioners!
Can’t do It. Wish I *as dead.
WEDNESDAY—Hermit borrowed my
Ashing fod. Hate fo lend my Ashing rod,
especially to l»oys. Secretary Toot s tour
partly damaged by earthquake In Chile
find I nm blmned. How can I toll whom
the earth Is going fo qunloy and how could
I stop It If I kuew? Life s a blank.
THfltSDAY-llnd to pnngle np n dolinr
to campnlgu fund. Money's S4>nrce them*
days. too. Tb« Infant Indnstrhs getting
most of It. Think of chucking up Job.
FRIDAY—Bhm breokfost f hla inorutnc
How could I help It, I’d like to know, i
onu’t Jollying the cook all day. Tough
on n man that does his level Wst. ami
Isn’t .1 weakling. Demand n square deal.
Work at l’annma slow. I cau’t make 'em
work there. I can't get In Chinks and
make them look like anything but Chinks.
Feel like quitting.
SATURDAY—Shall be glad to get out of
Cloister Bay. Time the others were com
ing In for their share. Think I’ll stick It
out until Washington.
AMONG OUR ENIM1ES, WE
ARE IN MIDST OF FRIENDS,
AND THEY PREDOMINATE
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Not only the race, but Atlanta, Is
passing through a crisis, and The In
dependent counsels moderation and de
liberate Judgment In all our actions.
Just at this time the motto of our
grand old state might be brought help
fully Into play. Wisdom, Justice and
moderation should actuate and guide
the conduct of every citizen.
The negro's 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 ore 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 pared of
the South, are enemies, the Southern
ers as an entity are our best friends
and we must not disorganize and par
alyze social and Industrial conditions
by stubbornness or wholesale exodus.
We must rise above the mob und not
charge our friends with the sins and
mob violence of the vicious and Irre
sponsible. We enn even do better than
our white friends. It Is now time to
E rove the stuff that Is In us by our
earing through the ordenl wc nre
passing. Our white neighbors charge
the entire race with the sins of the
vicious; this Is matfestedly unfair, and
It will not tje fair to charge Atlanta
as an entity' with mob violence. The
authorities were as much unprepared
for the rampage of the mob Haturduy
ntght as were the Innocent nnd Inof
fensive blacks who fell their victims,
Conditions not reasonably contem
plated can not be substantially pro
vided against. We must not only give
the constituted authorities time to re
store normal conditions, but we must
assist them In every way posalble by
maintaining order and surpresslng vio
lence.
We were In a position Saturday
night to see much of the mob, nnd It
was not composed of the people who
made and make Atlanta. It was not
composed of the substnrtlals and re
sponslbles, but of the trresponslbles
nnd that criminal element of whites
who never undertake to avenge until
they tank up on mean whisky and the
cover of night to hldo their cowardice
and rampage against the peace and
dignity of the state.
There were far more representative
men nnd women In Atlanta Saturday
ntght, who stood as sentinels with thetr
guns In thetr hands and protected thetr
negro servants from Impending danger,
than constituted the mob. Then why
should we become alarmed, disorgan
ized nnd desert those who stood by us
at the peril of their own lives?
Our service and peaceful presence
are absolutely essential to the highest
development of the city and thero Is no
noed of becoming unsettled und leaving
the community to settle In another vi
cinity, only to be molested In the aame
way for less provocation.
Standing around the corners In men
acing groups and staying nway from
our employers will not contribute to re
storing peace and harmony In the com
munity.
Many of us really have better protec
tion upon the premises of our employ
ers than we have at home. Let us keep
cool and 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 tha
negroes.
Let i» so far as He In our power re
move every semblance of provocation
for another outbreak. Let the recent
bloody scenes act as a stimulus to dou
ble our resolution to rout from the
community the criminal and the vi
cious. But this must be done by the
strong arm of the law. Mob law can
not do It. The majesty of the law must
be felt In the suppression of alt 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
Inw argues that law and the authorities
are Inefficient to cope with criminals;
this Is n 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 willing to engulf tha
entire city Into chnos and rtoL endan
gering every life and demolishing all
properly.
The future of Atlanta la too great
and the Interest of all the people too
Immense to be endangered by Irrespon
sible whites and criminal negroes, who
hnve nothing. Both the mob and the
criminal must go, but It Is not neces
sary for us all to become criminals to
got rid of the vicious. 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 la 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
farm 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,
razors and club axes were cleared away
at a negro party, where no white facts
were present, at least one doxen dead
and wounded negroea.
We only rite these (things to discour
age abnormal exerclau 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.
This apprnl Is hot made In the fear ot
extermination; we have no such cow
ardly fears, but nut of a heart full of
the purest patriotism In the Interest ot
all the people. Wc have no fears of ex
termination nor the separation Idea.
We are here and we nre going to re
main here nnrl map out our place as
useful nnd law-abiding cttlxens. We
will hnve an occasional loss of life and
property hero bb 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 w»
are always In the midst of our bes
friends. B. J. DAVIS,
Editor The Atlanta Independent.
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• Anxious Inquirer writes to aak for
Jerrine'a record. Fifty pills a day, we
believe.
•Is spelling reform a good thing?"
asks W. H. Snty-the. It wouldn't be
bad for proper names.
Please define art. Is the request of
Botticelli Boggs. Can't do tt, Botti
celli; art Is not Art without the cap A.
The darkest place on the earth’s sur
face, Richmond, Is Staten Island on a
Sunday evening.
Mame writes to ask If It la correct
to drink beer through a straw. Per
fectly correct, but slow.
Tn 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.”
The Lethe.
By ELLA ANGLIN VERNE.
I heard the noU(t that awi
Ixdow,
A Ken tie tdrti-votr* added notes aqulrer,
* Rope rippling rhythm from the fnlgenf
flow.
Tender the cord that felt the pain of feel-
Wonilroiis the light that abed a golden
glow.
Welcome the rett that silently comes •teal-
Inn.
Gracious the calm those Lethean wares
lieatow.
To that bright atreom ! gave a life's full
Of *enrs "to come—hen rtf nines* gone be
fore,
Then to a sweeter peace and trpidei
meaning
I’d found the open door.
AB8C0NDING 8ALE8MAN
CAUGHT IN DULUTH
H|>ro|nl to The Georgian.
Columbus, Ga., Sspt. 26.—Jerome Joy
formerly a traveling aaleeman for D
Rothechllda A Co, of this city, whs
disappeared several weeks ago, leaving
a shortage In his accounts, has been
arrested In Duluth, Minn., and will !><
brought back tn this city to face tin
chargee. Joy has a wife living In thk
city. He came here from 8L Louis.