Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-02-22
PRESS OPINIONS.

Richmond Planet: They are all
'.agin'' the poor Negro, and lastly but
not least 1.-THE poor Negro is 'agin'
himself. Slavery produced the last
condition.
With how much favor others may look
but this much we do know, in our opin-
ion it was not the proper thing to do.
Bryan Eagle: The man who broke
three of his wife's friends hugging her
is not so much to be blamed as the
thousand and one men who break their
wives Learts letting them go unhugged.
Savannah Tribune: One of the prev
alent weaknesses of our people is to
speak evil of each other, especially
those who are in prominent positions.
We should learn to uphold worthy ones,
and have feeling that if one succeeds
we will be benefited, and if any fail
we will feel it correspondingly.
Seattle Republican: Democracy in
Kentucky fourishes best under these
conditions: ..There are 1S9 retail gro
ceries in Covingtou and 19l saloons. In
Newport there are 96 groceries and l6
saloons" A Democrat without his
whisky is like soldier without his gun
"a harmless parsonage.
The Clipper: Pure womanhood must
be the watchword of one race for all
time The pure, influential and Christ
ian homes of our future will be pre-
sided over by the girls of to-day. The
race that neglects the purity of its RS
ing womanhood is doomed to utter con-
fusion and ultimate destruction.
Parsons Blade: Newspapers edited
by Negroes, as a rule, fail. Why? Be
cause Negroes will smile, grin and wish
you success, invite you acress the street
to take drink, pay 81 to attend a
funeral and s. to go to balls and parties,
two bits to hear a .sSermon on the
Mount and borrow the paper over IN
the next yard A man VINO gets to the
colored barber shop to read the colored
| weekly would ride blind baggage or
steal watch and come back in answer
to prayer and carry off the chain.
| Waco TEX Searchlight: Pay your
debts, tell the truth and go home early
to your family. II your boys and girls
do not cut much of a figure in society
and associate with the best people you
are more to blame than nybody. Many
parents come to grief on the account of
! the waywardness of their children and
term themselves most unfortunates of
earth, when really they have wholly
ignored the springtine of their boy or
girl Parents, when you go to church
take your children, and remember that
prayer, faith and hope are all good in
their place and time, but you must
raise your children in the way they
should go and when they grow up they
viii not depart from your precepts and
teachings.
Atlanta, Ga, Voice of Missions: We
notice in dispatches from Florida that a
| colored man was lynched to death by a
mob of colored men for perpetrating an
outrage upon colored girl sixteen
years old Cowardly dogs, every one
/ connected with the lynching bee ought
to be hung dead by the neck. Had the
| miserable brute, as he was, been a white
/ man. this Negro mob would not have
touched hair in his head, but as he
was black man Negro like myself
they had TO perpetrate murder. Any
i man, be he white or black, who vii
outrage Il woman, is brute and shoulc
have his ears cropped, his cheeks brand
ed or stamped with infamy by some
process. But even then it is not crime
deserving OF death, certainly not dealt
by mob, God says, ''Thou shalt no
kill, 8 but Moses did tolerate the dealt
of murderer, and under no circum
stances should mans life be take1
from him except for murder. God dic
not put Cain to death for killing hi
brother Abel, but put a mark upol
him, and we should do the same. Ev
cry man, be he white or black, con
nected with mob which involves tn
life of an individual, deserves to b.
dead and damned themselves.
BRnnKIYN woman who sympa