Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-07-07
BEFORE TAKING,
AFTER TAKING
The Situation in Del
aware.
THE CHILDREN ARE NOT SAFE
Says General Isaac Wistar of
Philadelphia.
WHITE MAN DEMON OF THE WORLD
Says Negro Preacher of Whining
ton Where Negro Was
Burned.
THE CHILDREN ARE NOT SAFE
WHITE MAN DEMON OF THE WORLD

New York, June 28.-Light is
thrown on the situation in Delaware
by General Isaac Wistar, of Philadel-
phia, who has a summer home near
the scene of the lynching. General
Wistar declares that there is no social
safety in rural Delaware. "Chil-
dren," he says, "cannot go from my
place to school, the distance of one
half mile, without being accompanied
at least part Ct the way. This has
been the case for some years past.
There can be no social safety or orderly
industry without the assured protec-
tion of the home and the family, and
we have no longer got it in Delaware.
The state is overrun with predatory
with little or no work, but chiefly ON
what they can earn out of politics.
Within few years past the market
value Of a negro vote has risen here
from % cents to $40, and many of the
southern negroes spend their time in
wandering from country to country,
debauching the polls, cheating the
election officers, and drawing their
support chiefly from that kind of en-
ployment.
"Such was the wretch who as
saulted and slew Miss Bishop" says
General Wistar, and he adds "such
was the character of several other
similar negroes, some of whom were
never arrested at all, but many of
whom, if arrested, tried and convicted,
escaped punishment by the incom-
potency of officials connected with the
courts
Gneral Wistar goes on to say that
if society cannot get the blessings of
peace and safety by the orderly meth
DDS provided by statute law, then,
since they are necessary and must be
had, you can depend on it that So
ciety will get them by the shortest
cut
The Rev. Montrose W. Thornton,
Pastor of the First A. M. E. Church.
of Wilmington, preached to a large
congregation tonight. He said. in
part:
1.-The white man, in face of his
boasted civilization, stands before my
eyes tonight the demon OF the world S
races, a monster incarnate, and ill.,
sofar as the negro race LIS concerned,
seems to give no quarter. The white
man is heather, fiend, a mons
frosty before God and is equal to any
act in the category of crime. would
sooner trust myself in den of hyenas
than in his arms. With courts, law
and officers in his hands, the despised
negro can expect no mercy, justice or
protection. The negro is unsafe any
where in this country. He is the prey
at all times of brabarians, who know
no restraint and viii not be restrained.
There is only one part left for the
prosecuted negro when Charge with
crime and when innocent Be a law
unto yourself. You are taught by this
lesson of outrage to save yourself
from torture at che hands of the blood
seeking public. Save your race
ifrrom insult and shame. Be your own
sheriff, court and jury, as was the
outlaw, Tracy. Die in your tracks,
perhaps drinking the blood of your
,persuers. Booker T. Washington
'charity, humanity, advice of fogive-
ness, love, industry and so on will
neve be reciprocated by white men.