The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-08-03

Ex-Governor in these scurrilous terms.
but while differing from his views
expressed the highest respect for him.
But Miss Jewett intimates that he is
''whitc trash,h favorite negro
phrase, by the way, which might
have been applied with equal truth to
Henry Clay and thousands of living
men in the South. the latchets of
whose shoes those who thus revile
them would be unworthy to unloose.
Another expression of kindly feel
ing from Miss .Jewett's speech: lis
that old hate (of the negro still there?
Does the browbeater of Harriet Beecher
Stoves Uncle Tom still live? If he
does, let us thank God that the slave
pen and the block are forever abolish
ed, and that the black man is gradu-
ally looking up and will yet arise in
his own defense
We have quoted Miss Jewett's
words thus liberallv to show how far
she may be considered guilty of the
intention OF stirring up strife be-
tween the North and the South. In
her communication to the Sun she
does mot hesitate" to condemn out
RACES upon women. but there was no
such condemnation in her Boston
speech, as reported in the Herald. Her
lynching statistics, compiled by par
tsans, carry no weight, but this is
not the point of the Indictment against
Miss Jewett and other Northern
women who have spoken on this sub
ject. The Indictment against them
is that all their sympathy and all
their efforts are enlisted in favor of
the negro ravishcr-that is, Judging
them by their own words-and that
while they are constantly condemn
ing violations of law in the South,
they have nothing to say about SINH
lar occurrences in their own section
or in the west. In this connection
we commend to Miss Jewctt's atten-
ton the case of George w. Higgins,
tarred, feathered and otherwise NAL
treated at Levant, Maine. on the night
of June ., and who barely escaped
being burned alive. This man had
done nothing but differ in opinion on
religious subjects from those around
him.
AS to Miss Jewett's charge that the
Sun has made 'mean and contempti
BILE insinuations about Northern
women who do not agree with it,
we would only say that the Sun
simply called the attention of these
female agitators to what their lam
guage and attitude naturally suggest
ed. But if the .Sun had made such
insinuations in regard to this small
band of noisy females, not in any way
representative of New England women
in general, it would have spoken not
one-hundreth part as harshly of them
as some Northern women and even
preachers of the Gospel have spoken
OF Southern women as class. Ii we
enter upon the subject of ''mean in
situations" Miss Jewett herself is not
guiltless, as is shown by the report of
her Boston speech. Speaking of the
Sam Hose case she is reported to have
said: "y we odn,U that Sam Hose dill
all that the lynchers sag he did," etc.
The phrasing, elf we admit, is equiv
alent to the expression of doubt as
to the guilt of the criminal. Who
was the witness against Hose? The
| woman whom he outraged and whose
husband was murdered in her pres
ence. Yet Miss Jewett virtually eX
presses doubt of his guilt and Of the
| truth and virtue of the witness, and
thus makes an insinuation against
his victim too horrible to put in
palmer language.
We have devoted this much space
to Miss Jewett's letter because the
| general sub ect is one which deserves
attention, and because suggestion
or two may possibly bear fruit even
in fanatical and preiudiced minds.
| The best cure for the evil of lynching
is the moral elevation Of the negro
race in the South. Agitators like
Miss Jewett are virtually responsible
for its continuance. because their
words foment and stimulate the COM
mission of the crimes which produce
| lvncbing. Violent utterances in Bos-
ton and elsewhere after the Sam
Hose lynching were largely RESPONSE
BILE, for every outrage on Southern
woman committed since that time.
The ignornant and lawless colored
elements in the South regarded these
utterances as an evidence that the
Northern people were in sympathy
with them and would protect them,
and they received aid and comfort
if not direct inspiration, from such
agitation.
If Miss Jewett and her associates
,ch TO inn n
things in the South. let them begin q
crusade against negro crime and
criminals. and make it plain to the
colored race in the North as we'll a,
in the South that it can expect nc
sympathy from them until the minis.
ters. teachers and sO-calle,t respecta-
BILE negro elements cease to act as apol-
ogists and champions of offenders like
Sam Hose. 1t is a strange. love Of right
and Justice" which can see only the
wrong to the negro and not the WRONG
which he commits.
For the sake of fun. mischief is done.
\ vast amount OF mischief lS done, tJ'
because people neglect to keep their blood
pure This mischief, fortunately, NAV b.
undone by the faithful use of Hood, Sar
saparilla.
Hoods Pills are the faVOtite family
cathaltic.
1t pays better to be a dentist thar
an oculist. A man has thirty-twC
teeth and only two eyes.
All things seem easy to the NAL
who never tries to do anything.