The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-09-10
Bill Rrp'S Left0r'
written for The Weekly constitutional

written for The Weekly Constitution.)
We thought that maybe the late New
| York and Akron riots would even up
things, and the south haters up in Gods
country would call off the dogs. but they
are still blowing the same old horn. They
are hard up. however Some of the hounds
have lost the trail. and all are scattered
and there is no keynote to rally them
the buglers don't harmonic. Some said
that the riot i'm New York was owing to
corrupt democratic administration In
that city. The Akron horror called for
another solution and now they boast that
they stlved the Niger. but if 1t had been
down south he would have been lynched
with Sam Hose tortures. late paper
sent me as a marked copy says that south
ern mobocracy has crossed the line and Is
affecting the lower classes up north. just
as a contagion spreads In unhealthy re-
gions. 1t all comes from the south. and
! there is no quarantine to arrest its prog
ress. That's bad and sad Let's build a
| wall.
But seriously we must warn our good
negroes not to cross the line. 1t is dan
gerous. Keep away from Pana and New
York. Stay at home and cultivate our
cotton and corn and let politics alone and
you are In no danger. Idleness is your
curse. If had my way l would re-estab-
fish the old patrol system and make ev-
cry tramp negro carry pass take a
whipping. / would empower the town
marshals and the country constables to
arrest every vagahond on the highway
and II he couldent give n good account
of himself he should be tied up and dress
ed down. We old men know that one good
whipping has more effect on bad negro
than five years in the chaingang. Even
hanging is glory. for they are going
straight to heaven. Last Saturday night
tramp negro cut the slat from the blind
of Mr.. Cary's house and opened 1t and
crawled in and stole his paternal 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 he walked up and re-
sisted. The negro took a night freight
and was arrested at Kingston, and the
watch was recovered, but he got away
We have got to do something with these
tramps. Our chaingangs are full enough.
] repeat It, that no good. industrious ne
gro is in any danger In the SOUTH and
they know 1t. Jim Smith Is the biggest |
farmer In the state. and he says there is
no labor In the world equal To that OF /
well-regulated negroes. and he knows.
But the spirit of mobocracy is not con- |
fined to the race problem up north. The |
lynching last Saturday at Gilman. In IL |
hnois, against an old defenseless |
white woman-a doctress who was sus-
pected of causing q young girls death by |
MALPRACTICE but who had not had a trial.
nor had any intention TO harm the errfnE /
girl A mob of 250 men attacked her house /
in the night. and she defended herself and |
her home and killed and wounded as many /
as she could. They mortally wounded |
her and burned her house. What kind Of
civilization is that? Why dident they
hunt up the man who ruined the girl?
Our civilization down south has always
til nyI n
did. We will not hang them for murder
for even old Mrs. Mobiles was sent to the
chaingang. Our women must have prot-c-
tion from white brutes and black fends.
and we would have rejoiced II somebody
had have given that scoundrel, Dr. VIII
kerson. who ran away with his wifes
sister. n hundred lashes before he was
turned loose in Atlanta. That was n good
case for little mob law. If the law could
not reach him the lash would. Poor. help
less pitiful woman How you have to suf-
fer In silence and live and die with your
wrongs unavenged. How many hearts
are breaking now because of n husbands
tyranny or hts faithfulness 10 HIS mar
rage vows For her children's sake she
keeps silent and buries her secret in her
bosom. I know of men who made fame
while living. and on whose monuments
fulsome epitaphs are chiseled who dis
graced and dshonored tho name of nus
band know some who are not dead
who are doing the same thing now. A
woman chained to an unprincipaled man
Is the most helpless creature upon earth.
bound to the rock and the
eagles eating his heart was not worse off.
says there is no wrong but
has a remedy He was mistaken. Women
have a thousand wrongs that are RENE
diless What kind of remedy is divorce
or separation or allmony? 1t is the heart
that IS broken. 1t is love and honor that
woman wants and that was promised her
at the altar. II, as last resort. she
leaves him. he struts around and claims
the children. 1.-THE children are mime
he SAYS. The man who says that is n
conceited fool In the first place he does
not know for certain that he is their
father, and If he IS. he made no sacrifice
to be so. All the pain of motherhood IS
hers. All the tender care and nursing
and night watching and generally all the
prayers for their safety and good conduct
are hers while he Is at his bank or store
or office or shop or maybe at his club or
billiard table. There was a time when
the wife was the husbands slave, accord /
Ing 70 the law and the children We're his
and II is hard TO eradicate thai
dea from some mems minds In our day. ,
Woman has been called the weaker vessel, I ,
ana men the lords of creation SO long that ,
i won't obliteratc. Girls, be careful 10
whom you chain yourself for life. Better
sew or be a shop girl or a typewriter or 4
school teacher or live with kindred or
friends and do Homework than take any
-isks Marry a young man who has good
and good habits. and not much ,
money. The love of money Is still the !
same old curse, and most Of the young I
men want to make 1t by short cuts ami /
dishonest practices. Get money, get 1t I
If thou canst. but at all events, =
ret money" Is still their motto. The ca :
ger grasping pursuit of money is the :
'urse of this age and generation. Hunt
nEton is dead and left his milllons~be- 7
lind, and his boast was that all men q
we're purchasable, and when it was to his Z
interest he bought them. whether they /
we're legislators or congressman. or judges J
f the courts. He spent millions that way. /
Some of our office seekers are doing the !
anne thing on n small scale-buying votes q
yes, buying negro votes. The white pri- T
nary dident nominate them, and they f
AVE renigged and reniggered. A little I
whisky and few dollars viii secure the Il
arkies, and the fear is that the white o
rimares will prove a failure. There are
men running for office as Independents
Who rely mainly on the negro vote, and fl
ant be elected without IT. Such men Il
ught to have the contempt of every n
God citizen. They ough to have .
ontempt for themselves, and =
eckon they do. The negro who
ellis his vote is not half as depraved y
s the white man who buys 1t. But we N