The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-09-19


ties alone aud you arc il 20 danger.
Idieness is your curse. If had my
1ay / would re establish the patrol
system ard make every tramp Negro
carry pass or take whipping. |
would empower the town naraha!s and
the country ccnstahles to arrest every
vagabond on the Highway aod If he
cou!dent give good accnua, Of himself
be should be tied up az dressed down.
We old uen knos thai one good
whirpiDs has more fest on ha:
Negro than 67e years in the chaiogang.
Even a hanging IS glorg, FOX they are
goirg straight to Heaven.
Last Saturday pight tramp Negro
cut The STAT from the blind Of Mr. Cary's
house and opened it and craw!edia and
stole his paternsi gold watch and his
pocket book within three feet OF his
head, while he was sleeping No
doubt he was armed, and would have
shot Mr.. Cary had be walked up ard
resisted. The Negro took night
freight aud was arrested at Kingston,
and the watch was recovered, but he
got away. We have got to do some
thing with these trsmps Our chain
gangs are full enough. | repeat it that
no good industrious Negro IS in any
danger in the South, and they know it.
jim Smith is the biggest farmer in the
State, aud he says .here is no labor in
the world equal to taat Of well regulated
Negroes, and he knows.
But the spirit Of mobocracy is not
con6ned to the race problem up North.
The lypching last Saturday at Gilman,
in Illinois, was against an old, defense
less white woman-a doctress, who was
suspected Of causing young girls
death by malpractice, but who had not
had trial, nor had any intention to
harm the erring girl. A mob of 250
men attacked her house in the night,
and she defended herself and her home
and killed and wouoded as many as
she could. They MORALLY wounded
her and burned her house. What kind
Of civilization is that? Why didn't
they hunt up the man who ruined the
girl? Our civilization down South has
always protected women, no matter
what they did. We will not hang
them for murder, Tor even cid Mrs.
MOBILES was sent to the chaingang.
Our women must have protection
from white brutes and black fends, aud
We would have rejoiced if somebody
had have given that scoundrel, Dr..
Wiikerson, who ran away with his wife's
sister, hundred lashes before he was
turned loose in Atlanta. That vas
good case for little mob law. If the
law could not reach him the lash would.
Poor, helpless, pitiful woman! How
you have to suffer in silence and live
and die With your wrongs uuavcDged.
How many hearts are breaking now be-
cause Of q husbands 5 tyranny or his
faithlessnes5 to his marriage vo@s.
For her chiIdrens sake she keeps silent
aud buries her secret IN her bosom. |
know Of men VINO usde fame ThlIe
living, and on whose monuments fu!-
some epitaph5 are chiseled who dis
graced aud dishonored the name of hus
band. I know some who are not dead
who are doing the same thing now. A
woman chained to an unprin oipled man
is the most helpless creature upon earth.
Pfonetheus, 0Cuod to the rock and the
eagles eating his heart, was not worse
of.
Blackstone says there is 30 wrong
but has remedy. He was mistsk ken.
Wom2n have a thousand wrongs that
are remediless. What kind of remedy
is divorce or separation CT alimonJ? 1t
IS the heart that is broken. il is love
and honor that women waGts, anu was
promised her at the altar. Ii, as a last
resort she Leaves him, ne struts around
and claims the children. The cn!!.
dren arc mine, he says. The man VINO
says that is q coneeited fool. In the
first place he does not know for GER
laiu luet lie IS thtir father, and if ne Is,
he made no sacrifice 10 be 50. All the
pain OF motherhood is hers ali the
tender care and nursing and night
watching aad generally ali the prayers
Tor their safety and COED conduct are
hers, while be is at his bank or store or
Office or shop or maybe At bis c:uo or
billiard table. There was time When
the aife Was the Husbands a!sve. &C
ce7d:uc to the law, and the children
we're hls property, sHd it is hard to
eradicate that idea from some meps
minds in Our day. Woman has been
called he weaker vessel. aud men the
lords Of creation 50 long that it wont
o5iiteraCe.
Girls, be careful 10 whom you chain
yourself for life. Better sew or be p
shop girl or typewriter or schoo!
teaches or live With kindred or friends
aud do housewerk lhan take any risks
Mary youog ran ~ha has coed
principles and COED habits, an1 rot
much money. The lc7e CT money Is
sill the same old curse, ard u.ost OF
the young men Bsnt TO make 1t bg
short cuts and G;shones; practices.
Get money, get it honestly, if thou
caust. bur at al eg"0ts. get m2aeg, Is
still their motto. The eager, gvasping
pursuit OF uoDey is the curse Of this
age and generation. Huntington is
dead. and left his millions behind,
and his boast vas that all men were
| nrrohasahTa and when it was to his in