The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-18
stone WRITES
i the Southern States
: il Proper Light
., v.ooIe Of Great Britain The
, u, Stat Statements Of Ida Wells

s,,Op City, Mo, June 10
Soma this morning gave
'', ,.,louino letter to the press
,slf.enpl,uatory' c,...
'' '.,,ys Office, Jefferson City,
y 6 A., June Is, 1924
Mil n,;Iv News, London, Eng
S Same one has sent me a copy
Ri ri issue of May Id, lSa -. ~. oh
y, ly4', ~Americsn Horrors -" 1t
I, sa that at the May meeflng'
' ''s of the Baptist nlon'
. ,bs Congregational I mon,
,, i'm proposed and seconded
e ,'.al reverend doctors had
,lopted, expressing "grlef ana
l, At the wrongs done to the
he'd people IN the southern +,
Of America by la*less mobs''
It also appears that a NJ LES
wslls was presented before the
Ia Women Temperance AS.
Ltjon and "gaye an account OF
horrors that had occurred under
lawn notice, and SAID that IN lbs
lhpg: or mob murders last year
| 40 Of the victims had been
accused Of crime"
s Wells is described az q
Rorsd lady from Mempis, Tenn, ="
Ia the "editor and proprietor
new. paper in Memphis, who
be.p e1iled under q threat of
violence for protesting in her
rsssnst these crimes
seems she SO wrought upon
British Women's Temperance
beistion that resolution of
pNhy was passed by acclama-
declaring, among other things,
mo txigency can Justify the in
ion Of such forms of retrlbution,
\ for crimes the most heinous. y"
also stated that Sin some of
great towns Gin England) meet
have been held on the SUI ect,
ss!roug feeling of asst and
)tscu indignation has been
f;ed" We are Informed that
Peproceediag, or some parts of
p vFre lat for the purpose Of
fsng'henil 9 the hands of d,
dfOrd AMI other Americana,
are appealing to the public
flon at home.
! SOUTHERN STATES AssAILED.
Taking these statements as a
sand assuming them to be true,
proceeded IN your editorial
(melts to prefer q severe indict
'igalnst all the Southern States
(ae Unlon' Your paper has a
Fa'Vlde circulation, and the ap-
Fsnce of this article in your COL
p especially in your editorial
pms, is calculated to do i'm.
|'afable and most unmerited
[@ 70 those against whom it is
[''sa 10 the opinion of the good
|ps Oh all Europe. Missouri is
c'a'sed as q Southern State,
|PsIsphically it is grouped as a
''sla Stale. But it lies right
Y me border of the Southern
E''' was enc of the old slave
'NS ''' ana has quite large negro
IT, r. M'l wish to state emphat.
!! mat negroes are in every re-.
n. a. well treated in Missouri az
i ,s:' a. or any other State.
| , W.. s'ate | personally know
so he! nave the same freedom Of
~ wv :. apu conduct, and that they
! ns ,ae same privileges of citizen,
!, f H. = BY the whites. All
'vi ,L' state public schools are
lc nt'u al public expense for the
! =, n Al lolored cnildren, and
ets ! . .sl City is a college,
t ssa ' an maintained by the state
q "oa suCn OF these children a.
Me y sas the public schoo
lie ..o ,Iu care 10 do SO, may pros
~ INes IN tae seiences. classins
Len o nv Gol0fed people are as saf,
ne i. NJ laws as the white, anC
,yed h h. privilege of the citizer
y ,ba,!Ia ,ae whites that is no
know , A.; oy the negroes.
th q. to 'q W,, to be absolutely th'
|e to az missouri. I do no. hes
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