The age-herald., 1901-08-11
MISS JEWETT AGAIN
 DENOUNCES THE SOUTH
Says With All the Great Discussions There is One Problem Fail to Considerable Negro Race Is Being Mis-
 treated and She Wants the Law Enforced.

methods prevailing. the solution of the problem is not likely to come quickly. and the lawlessness, the 1ynchings, the burnings at the stake, the murders. all so prominently identified with the race problem in our own country, must cause considerable apprehension among the na- tives of thosa countries into which we are introdrciar oar oivillging influences.
 It is not Necessary to discuss this sub jeot from the standpoint of the weaker race in order to show the great danger to which the country is exposed through the neglect on the part of our people to give the race question the proper atten- tion Whether or not the oolored race is q desirable part of our population is something entirely out of the question. The negro Is here, and the impossibility of getting rid of him is admitted. The question Is what are you going to do about 1t?
 Are we to go on hanging, burning, dis franchising the race at home, disregard ing the constitution and everything else in our blind fury-admitting that the problem here is too much for us-when at the same time we arc assuming do- minion over millions of colored people in other lands? Even the clergy Of this country, so solicitous in seeing to 1t that the Bible shall follow the flag. even if the constitution does not, are singularly indifferent in regard to the more pressing problem here at homo. At least have found many of them of that fram of mind One Of the most prominent leaders of his denomination a minister who breaches to thousands every Sunday, and is as wen known abroad as in this ooun- try as a pulpit orator, when l asked him to say something about the lawless man ner in which the negro has been dealt with, or at least give the matter some consideration, replied: q have too many other things to think about. Tho prob lem is to big for either of us" I might add that in politics this minister Is an ex- pansionist.
 So when MT. Mcveagh says VIC refuse to consider this great problem. know from experience that he speaks the truth. It Is not enough for our public-spirited men to contribute money to this, that and the other thing having a bearing on the problem, and then dismiss the matter from their minds. There are other ways in which they may show their disapproy- al of existing conditions, ways in which they can show to the nations of the world, among which we have taken our place, that we are not the selfsh excita- ble barbarians which we must appear to be in the estimation of people who know only as much about us as they learn fror1 reading the cable dispatches printed on the other Side of the oHean.
 In forming anti-lynchfn~ leagues, 1t was my object to offset u 8 impression first by having the members show that they were not in sympathy with those of their race who committed crime, and in cooperating with their white neighbors in enforcing the law of the land in appre- hending of criminals. and in punishing for crime; and secondly, by impressing upon them the necessity of living such lives that would free the race from the stigma that has been placed upon 1t, by the crimes of a comparatively small num- Der of negroes. Gut I found that tho same attitude was assumed toward the movement on the part of the advocates of lynching and lawlessness, as had been assumed toward "oes suspected of crime, and 1t Is a matter for congratula- tion that the lynching element does not represent the south ,a: .
 The anti-lynching movement, however, is having It's effect, and if 1t were in no other way than in arousing a slumbering people, and in forcing them to look in the face this problem which MT. McVeigh says we refuse to consider, 1t must be admitted that something has been accom- plished