The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-12
MISS JEwETT AND THE BAKERS
They are Creating Furor in New Eng
gland.
charleston News and Courier0


When Miss Jewett was in Charleston
the other day she was fulsome IN Der
nlatitndinous protestation of admiration
and affection for the South III New
England. with her arms about the Baker
children. and in the presence Oh A'll-
dreds of excited negro AUDITORS she
sings another tune. This clrcunlsta1;e
is in itself sufficient proof of the JouEg
woman's character to warrant dlstfuST
of the motives by which she IS inspired.
Not q few of the better class OF Boston
colored people have repud'ated Miss
Jewett in no uncertain language. Mrs.
RuIfin. who is the widow OF colorHd
man who was very prominent Ill BoS' on
some years ago, and who is hersaf an
educated strong-minded woman, warned
her race against accepting Miss lcwett $
leadership. Mrs. Ruffin implied MS
strongly as she could do that the modern
Harriet Beecher Stowe was not IN PR
waite life the kind Of woman to command
the respect, much less the admiration,
of honest people Other persons who
have nut themselves to some pains TO
acouire information have come to the
Same conclusion, but in the meantime
Miss Jewett has the Bakers with her,
and arpears to he billing them rs the
star attractions of humanitarian dime
museum. And the negroes, to whom
Boston culture even seems unable TO
impart common horse sense, are paying
their money freely for front seats at the
exhibition.
At the Providence meeting Miss Jew
cit expressed regret that she was too
tired to make such an address as she
had planned The fact of the matter
is Miss Jewett had not sense enough
to make an address of any kind to which
any thinking person would give a second
Thought You cannot see and talk to her
for ten minutes and continue TO doubt
this statement If she ever does say
ANYTHING worth listening to you may
rest assured 1t was written out for her
by Mr.. r. G., Larson or someone else
personally interested III her and the
success Of her present sensational enter
prise-the name of Mr.. larson is used IN
this connection because he Is a news
paper man who seems to have establish
ed himself as the general factotum of the
.Jewett-Baker aggregation. When MISS
Jewett was being interviewed by a re-
porter for the News and Courier she
was being coached all the while by Mr..
Larson. and even with the assistance
and constant encouragement of her
prompter she did not succeed in saying
anything worth reproducing. The most
charitable construction that can be
rlaced ON Miss Jewett'S course Is the as
sumption that she is a foolish young
girl who has been put up to piece of
hurtful sensationalism by designing per-
sons. The other view of her is very
simple one-that she is one of party
of tricksters who hope to farm the llll-
fortunate preiudces which still divide
the two sections of the nation TO thelf
own advantage. If Miss .Jewett's words
and actions have been correctly report
cd in the Boston papers this latter view
of the situation would seem to be the
correct one.
The Boston Globe contained the fol-
lowing in it's account of the Providence
meeting:
Miss Jewett opened by saying that
her heart was fired by seeing SUCH
great audience present, and her only
regret was her inability to present an
address such as she had planned for the
Providence public But she would de-
liver that address at a later time she
considered that the appearance of Mrs.
Baker and her family before the audi
pnce was the greatest object lessons the
North could have of the tremendous
barharism in the South as it exists to-
day."
Touching the same incident the Boston
Herald, a paper that through the me
dunn of Mr.. Larson's personal interest
had been converted into Miss Jewetts
organ, said:
"When the vast audience had become
ouiet once more Miss Jewett SAID:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: My heart is
filed when | see all the people who are
here tonight. ] thank you for your
kindness, and / only regret that ! can
not deliver the address which | had
upon my mind and which ! should have
given under other circumstances. |
think have in Mrs Baker and her fam
lily one of the greatest object lessons OF
the age. ] wanted you to see them that
for yourselves you could judge of the
barbarians who exist in the South. Here
they are. look at them. / wish to intro
duce little Lincoln Baker, who was
awakened from his sleep and shot down
md manned for life for no other reason
than that his father was the postmaster
Of Lake City. Here is the little boy;
look upon his disfigured eye
And the Boston Journal started on it's
account of the meeting with the follow
ing sentence:
with coal black negro boy on either
side, her arms around their necks, Miss
Lillian Clayton Jewett stepped smiling
before the great audience that packed
Providence Music Hall last night"
Irritating stings, bites, scratches.
wounds and cuts soothed and healed b.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve-a sure