Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-24
AvolcE FROM THE SOUTH.

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are not being neglected.
Av0lCE FROM The SOUTH.
| No one who is at all familiar With
southern sentiment or his visited for
considerable time in the south Is sur
rrised over the resentment expressed
there us a result of the Booker Washing
! ton dining incident at the white house.
| The faces of these southern people are
firmly set against an internliAture of
| races, and they do not favor any letting
down Of the social bars. Perhaps the
best presentation of their views is given
| York Sun TO say:
1t would be great service if the real
| situation of the best class OF southerners
! in their relation to the negro could be
| made clearer 10 the president and the
| men Of the north. First OF all. let it be
understood that it is a necessarily fun
damental principle of southern social
intercourse there shall be no social
equality with the negro. Why? Because
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the negro is good enough to meet on that
plane he is good enough for your dausn-
ter or son to marry, and surely no intel
lligent man can believe that 1t would De
a good thing for the southern people or
for the country at large to bring ABOUT
an amaigamation Of the two races IN the
south.
One of the first lessons sought to be
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taught by every good southern woman
TO he,, sons is the evil and degradation
resulting from too intimate intercourse
With the negro And when you con-
e,tier the almost utter lack of morality
OF the women of that race think II rs
really astonishing and very much TO the
credit of the southern men that there
has not been more evil on this line than
seems somewhat natural. 1t is one OF
the glories. and to my mind not one OF
the least. OF the Anglo-Saxon race that.
! they have as a rule kept their race
clean and their homes undefled. Tne
ntins. ON the other hand. have inter-
married with the natives In South
America and In Canada. and, in fact,
wherever they have gone, and with re-
sults that are surely not to be consul
cred 10 satisfactory that they may be
Urged as worthy OF our imitation.
The good women OF the north ana all
good people everywhere should sympa-s
thize with and encourage the southern
| neonl, in their fight for purity of race
| snd purity OF morals. It is not ques-
tion Of prejudice against Mr.. Washing
i'm i have no doubt that he is person
ally much the superior in every way OF
many of the white men from the SCUM
| 10 whom the president may feel caiied
| ,.,on to show some official or personal
\ courtesy. but when the president OF the
| limited states undertakes to put his OIL
! ejal approval upon the reception OF all
classes on an equal footing at the white
| Rouse he is, in the opinion OF all the
| good people of the south land II should
| he of all good people everywhere). doing
| eli that he cam and that should be
/ great deal, for his influence ought to be
yery great, to break down barrier
which, the southern people have justly
4 tried to maintain since the INTRODUCTION
| OF the negro among them
A great deal of twaddle has been in
4 dulced in In novels and cheap literature
&c 10 the hardships suffered by refined
and beautiful girls because. forsooth
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/ the negro blood in their veins. Do the
reopls who allow themselves to get
! worked UP over these imaginary cases
ever stop to think how the faint gos
| there? And can't they be made to I'M
derstand that the smaller the faint the
more shame to the individual? Since IN
| termarriage has always been prohibited,
| n follows the smaller the faint the more
generations of births outside of wedlock.
would we even think white girls proper
! associates for our children when IT was
known that for many generations their
parents, grandparents and all the rest
aid not think 1t necessary to marry?
This is delicate question. know,
and one very hard to treat in a frank
manner, but 1t is the only, practically
| the whole Of the negro question; for
YOU can not admit social equality with
nut all the rest of it, and surely. most
surely. that is not to be advocated for
moment. The southern people believe
! that to fight against social equality is
| fight for purity of morals.