The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-09
IDA WELLS STIRS UP A STORM.
NEGROES as WELL TREATED II
THE SOUTH As N THE NORTH.

Susan b. Anthony Cites an Instance
where a CoIOred Girl Was Nirtu-
aIIy shut Ont From Attending an
Entertainment Given by Her school
CASA Theological student Calls
the CoIored Lectures Down on
Her Statements AbOut Lynchings
in the south.
Rochester. y. Y, April S-There was an
exciting finale TO the lecture OF Ida b.
Wells last evening at the First Baptist
church. in which a theological student
from Texas. and Miss Susan B. Anthony
participated Ida Wells said negro lynch
ing had increased in the south in a marked
degree: that between 1Ss2 and 1892. 1000
colored people were lynched on slight pre-
texts, and in many cases when they were
known TO be innocent She gave number
Of illustrations bearing upon her con-
illusions, when the theological student,
who said he hailed from Texas, arose and
said: do you assume that all the negroes
that have been lynched in the south since
the war have been innocent
Il never said that replied Ida Wells.
81 simply claim that they were innocent
in the eye of the law. no man is guilty I'M
I'll found so by trial"
The Wells woman then resumed her
lecture. She said it was considered
crime for negroes to inteG-marry with
whites. and that this was manifestly I'M
Just to the colored women Of the south.
She insisted that If It was illegal for white
men 10 marry colored women it should
also be illegal for them to form alliances
with them. A white man might live with
a colored woman with IMMUNITY. but if he
should marry her it would be a crime.
Here the Texan. in evident excitement
arose and said: DO negroes want TO
marry white folks? If the negroes are
so badly treated in the south why do they
not come north. or go west, or to some
more congenial clime?'
"Thev are not able TO emigrate." re-
sponded the lecturer, because they arc
always In debt to their landlords, being
paid IN checks for provisions only good
At plantation stores. l would remain IN
the south myself had l not been forbidden
life. w
longer. She jumped to her feet, and,
with fire in her eyes, said: The colorcd
people receive no better treatment in
the north than they do In the south. That
is why they do not come here l will
relate an incident that occurred in our
city only last week. A dance was to De
given IN NO. school Tor the dement, OF the
children of the seventh grade, and tickets
were issued to children for 10 cents.
Now, IL happened that there
was a colored girl in that grade
who wanted TO get in as we'll as the white
children. and her mother gave her the
money But when she went to her teacher,
Miss Stuart she was told that, If she in
sisted on attending, none Of the white
children would go and that the affair would
be given up. So the poor child was turned
away | consider that the outrage on
the feelings Of that colored girl was the
result of the same spirit that inspired
lynchings in the south"
Miss Anthonys denunciation of these
distinctions among the Christian people of
the north as well as the south was dra-
matte, and the theological student from
Texas, completely subsidized in the out
burst of approval on the part of the au-
dience that followed.