Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-08-15
AMERICUs. Ga. AUG. Is, 1908.
THE WOMAN BE DAMNED


at the suggestion, emphasized by state
ments of members of the Prison Com
mission, that cognizance will hardly be
tafen~ef the -dam6able atrocity COM
mitted at1dilledgeville in the fogging
of Mamie De Chris; that the outrage
is to be officially whitewashed, and de-
e1ared, in fact, a ''closed incident"
!. This is the we'll understood purpose
of the Prison Board, of which body
Gov. Terrell requested a full aud thor
ough investigation.
This alleged Investigation" has
been made, to the entire satisfaction of
the Prison Trlumvirate, and the mod
ern Legree is to be officially declared
an archangel. There is no balm poured
upon the quivering flesh of the beaten
and Inundated woman, his helpless
victim.
Is it wonder that the people of
G eorgia stand appalled, when confront
ed with this seeming failure of official
duty? The blacklist crime in the
states history is to pass unnoticed.
It has we'll been said that politics
make strange bedfelIows; and the
smaller the politicians the more odor-
Gus their sleeping environments.
Like the skunk, they are diminu-
tive in size, but pungent and powerful
when stirred.
It is to the everlasting disgrace of
Georgia that this inhuman beating OF
a woman for no real ofense, if ofense
is wanted as paIliating circumstance,
is not to receive that consideration,
nay, condemnation, from those in au-
thority that it deserves. The report of
the Prison board will contain 10000
words, and every word is made re-
splendent in official whitewash.
Prison Commissioner Tom Eason is
the personal friend of Whipping Boss
Allagood, who doubtless owes his job
to Mr.. Eason. Both are residents of
Montgomery county, and stand to-
gether.
Chairman Turner and Dr. Adams
are likewise from the same county
Putnam-and each is immaculate IN
the eyes of the other.
General Evans, the fgurehead of the
commission, would doubtless do what
was right had he the power, but being
in a hopeless minority his voice in the
councils of the Triumvirate is but a
hollow echo. eve" have investigated
the De Chris case, the Commission
will report, and "we" can see no cruel
ty inflicted,
Their jobs are cinch; the pay is
sufficient; the woman be damned.
It is even stated by one of the Tri-
umvirate that other women, even white
women, in stripes, are further ''strip-
ed by the Legrees in authority and no
fuss made about it. Why, then, this
Juror in the De Chris case?
If white women are thus beaten the
stigma resting upon Georgia is but the
greater. Certain is it the fact was
never made known to the public until
thus admitted by Chairman Turner.
But then this is but one of the hum
dreds of bloody mysteries connected
with the modern Inquisition, the Geor-
gia penitentiary.
Compared with it the Black Hole OF
Calcutta was paradise.
A system that fosters the killing
nav. official murder-of the poor, help
less victims incarcerated deserves to be
condemned in unmeasured terms. 1t
is this system, this slaughter pen OF
human beings, that holds poor Mamie
De Chris, who may suffer greater in
dignity now than before.
For, the official report will declare
she should have been beaten, hoggeo
numerically as she was; her quiyering
flesh cut into whelps by the lash. She
should have been driven to the fields
with negro wenches to work IN the
broiling sun while still staggering
under the blows of the bull whip.
Because, forsooth, 1.-THE state needs
The money her work in the field i