The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-23

known convictions OF the masses, has In
1t the elements of practical progress to-
wards the IDEAL For the same reasons
I am in favor of uniting the Populist
forces with those of the reform Democ-
racy under the leadership of Bryan, not
because that Chicago platform is an ideal
document, but because it is not ideal. 1t
is practical-a great practical advance
over the old conditions. More practical
than the Populist platform, not mainly
because it is less radical but because
it commands a following which will
make it effective in sweeping the coun-
try in 1900-provided plutoci-atiucunning
don't succeed in fooling the people again.
w. c. BOWMAN.
A Defense Of Southern Womanhood
To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
ald-The whole question of "Lynching''
negroes in the south is misrepresented
in the letter of one George d. Taylor,
NJ D., in the FINEST of the 21st. Before
discussing this letter we wish to say
that we are personally opposed TO
Lynch law" believing that rigid ex-
ecution of the laws against rape would
administer justice to all concerned.
But human nature is just the same in
zens of Los Angeles would swing a
white or black man to lamp post for
the crime of rape just as surely as
would the citizens of Vicksburg. The
only reason why there are fewer rapes
committed in the northern states than
the southern is because there are fewer
negroes in the northern states.
DR.. Taylor says, in speaking of the
to, h
woman cannot be safely entrusted to his
care is too false to be noticed. Who
cared for the white women and children
during the war, while his master was.
fighting to keep him in slavery? Why
did he not commit rape then? Is he
more lustful or more debased now than
then? No.
Whether a white woman is safe in the
hands of a negro ruffian is shown by the
number of rapes committed in the
south now over those committed before
the war. During the war negro slaves
acted as guardian angels to the women
and children of the south while the
white men were away in the army, and
the better people of the south intend
some day to erect a monument to per-
petuate the memory of their loyalty.
~ ne HtSIO, NiGI Ill oidNClyt ulu isOt
dream of violating the persons of south
ern women. The, discipline of slavery
and the Christian virtues many Of them
had been taught by their owners ban
ished from their minds all such
evil thoughts, but under the higher
civilization brought to them by free
dom, the baleful vice of lust took possess
sion of them.
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seldom ever committed by the negroes.
There are now ten negroes in jails in the
south for different crimes where there
was one in times of slavery, and in pro-
portion to the population of negroes in
the north and in the south there is
much larger proportion Of negroes in
northern than in southern jails. The
statistics of negro criminals In 1896 show
that they have increased more than a
hundredfold since 1860.
Hear DR.. Taylor further. He says:
1.-THE negro is tempted more now than
then (when a slave) and led on In the
majority Of cases by the white women,
and everything goes well until they are
caught" Does it not show the lowell
ness and law abiding character of the
southern people to know that they per-
mitted Dr. Taylor to live thirty-three
years in the south while cherishing such
malicious opinions against southern
women? Those knowing the southern
character know that DR.. Taylor never
expressed such opinions while in the
SOUTH 1t would not have been either
prudent or healthy for him to have done.
so. Hear DR.. Taylor again: when
the white man wants to commit his
crime he seeks the black woman, and
of course you never hear OF it, or should
he seek white woman he simply blacks
his face, commits the deed; some poor
negro is lynched; many times he helps
to do it, and that end,sit.
This sounds like a personal expert
ence on the part of the doctor, for he
says he "knows many instances OF the
kind" Has DR.. Taylor stood by and
seen innocent negroes lynched when he
knew that the crime for which they suf-
fered had been committed by white
man, who had "black his face?" Why
did he not give those facts to the grand
jury or publish them to the world?
The doctor closes his Infamous charge
against southern womanhood In these
words Nnety-nine per cent or the
negro men of the south are afraid to
insult white woman, If they were 80,
inclined, and the women. knowing this
make the first advance"
Such a scurrilous attack was never be-
fore made on southerp women, and l am
surprised that the Times would publish
such a scandal. Southern women need
no vindication from any pen. Ihelr
character for virtue Is entirely above
the reach of the poisoned arrows OF NAL
ice and hate, and, they still keep the.
family altar pure, resisting alike the
spirit of free-loveism and divorce,
which are now sappipg the foundations
of our modern society
JOHN SHIRLEY WARD.
He Is Down on Dogs
To the Editor of the Los Angeles