The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-08
RELATIONS OF thu RACES; So
CIAL PURITY, ETC.
Lady Reader Writes.

by an editorial that appeared In the
Daily Record Auguat IS n, and while
other pape. g are r~epudiating the editor
and calling for the ~Ooycottlng OF hls
paper, and some sre usirg that edIto
rial for campaign fuel, is It not TINS
for the women OF this and every other
State, to take up the matter, and TO
treat i5 according t the fecrs as they
stand, not on the written page, Tor hat
is often exaggerated when not abso
Iutely false, but az they stand within
our certain knOWledge9
Manly says that it Is no worse Tor a
black man to be intimate with q white
woman than for a white man to be IN
innate with q black woman. He Is
perfectly right. Sin is sin, and the
difference in color between a white
man and a olack one, does not make
the sin any whittier or any blacker, and
the q IF n In color between q white
woman and g black one, does not MAKE
the sin any blacker any whittier. The
difference lies ! the amount OF kno#I-
edge which either has Of the principles
of religion as laid down in the Bible.
Generally speaking, the whites have
more Knowledge Of the Scriptures thar
the blacks, but there may be Instances
where the reverse is true. Ignorance
of the law excrs 8 no one, but accord
ing to the amount Of light and knowl,
edge so Is the condemnation. The
more knowledgg Of holiness, the greater
the Sin.
Leaving Manly to defend himself
and his race as best he may, l will add
q few words with regard TO those houses
which are the way to hell going do~n
to the chambers o. death" 1t Is not
altogether the fault of the female race
that such houses exist. 1t has often
been said that if young ladies would
boycott the society OF young men who
drink whiskey and use profanity and
tobacco that those evils would soon
cease to be, because young men are go
ing to live up to the standard that the
young ladies set. Well, when the men
OBEY the Scripture Injunction, which,
speaking OF the strange woman" says,
Remove thy way far from her and
come not nigh the door Of her house,
none that go unto her return again,
neither take they hold of the paths Of
life, then those houses will cease to be.
While there are women all over this
fair land advocating temperance re-
forms, there should be a Mems Social
Purity LEAGUE, each member pledged
to do all in his power to elevate the
tone Of society around him. To gather
into the churches and Sabbath schools
the boys and girls, the young men and
maidens, the old and gray headed, the
street arab and the spoiled child Of
wealth, and there teach them, n and
all, the religion Of the pure and Holy
Jesus, vino, while he did not favor
lynching, yet said to the woman. Go,
and sin no more"
Men 90 pledged might put a step to
the posting On tenement and other
buildings the circus pictures whose
presence on the wells are a disgrace to
any community and an insult to the
youth and beauty Of every young girl
that may chance to see them, and to
the boys, welI-they ara pointers to the
road that leads into hell, and so are
many OF the pictures on tobacco
boxes, an insult to humanity, and a
disgrace TO the profession Of the artist,
worse than any political cartoon that
ever saw
While the Prohibitionists seek to
lessen crime by attacking whiskey, let
them also raze to the ground every
den Of wickedness where the wine cup
ia held out oy the hand of the female
bacchante, and compel it's inmates to
earn their living by the sweaE of their
brows, as all honest persons do.
Concerning the disappearance of the
Indians as a race, it is said to be owing
mainly to amalgamation, and 80 it may
be said of both the white and colOred
races. Amalgamation is going on
at q rate that will soon swallow
up all the nations on the face Of the
globe, unless those who are opposed to
it, take a stronger stand against it
than they have done heretofore. Those
who profess to dislike the amelgama,
ton theory, should be the warmest
friends of colonization instead Of its
bitterest enemies. II you mingle to
gether oxygen and hydrogen in the
right proportions, water is produced.
If you apply friction to a match fire is
produced. Water will quench fire,
and fire will convert water into Steam,