The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-03-31
The Negroes conception Of Justice"

second-claSS mail matter.
The Negroes conception Of Justice"
The cause of the woman suffrage was
not greatly advanced, at least IN Iowa.
by the rumpus raised at the recent
national convention of the American
Woman Suffrage Association, over the
race problem. Mrs. Butts, who edits
paper at Clarksdale Mississippi, cover
ed herself with notoriety by speech,
during the course of which she SAID
what has the negro done for the
world? Absolutely nothing History
shows that for 10000 years the nlach
race has been the symbol OF all that >
immoral corrupt ana degrading. ara
experience in the South SHOWS Gaat the
neeco has absolutely no conception o.
Justice or the rights Of others. lbls al
InsuIt to t1te agaen Of the eoiieFi 70
cl0the such beasts VITA tne fIshts
citizenship "
And thus it goes on: from the mouths
OF senators, the shoutings OF mops, tne
sinsistent utteranees Of the press, the
narrow minds OF misguided women
comes this repeated urging THAI the
black race shsll be reconsigned to sla,
very. The South spresuming too much
ii it thinks the spirit OF the oldtime abo-
lipionist of the North is dead. Some
fifty years ago the South made a SINH
Lar mistake and some forty years ago
bheg were paying fer it.
The North is :ndu!gent, it is long
suffering but It's wrath when reused Is
like the wrath OF the Almighty in its
power. The white people OF the South
are people accused by their upright
eousness They have debauched and
depraved and humiliated race, and
like the vile seducer, they scott at the
helpless beings they have brought low.
Every yellow face in the South and
there are thousands of them, tells ten
tiu.es more of the immortality, corrupt
ion and degradation of the white men
of the South than Of the ignorant ne
gro woman. Is it a wonder that bas-
tard sons are rising to claim their her
itage, Many have inherited the brain
and ambition OF their fathers, but their
fathers know them not The presence
of the black man in the South is but
the living witness of southern
greed, the presence of the molatto is
but4tke living witness of the sensuality
AID brutishness of these southern hus
/bands and gentlemen. 1t is no wonder
if southern woman raves, but hel
wrath is misdirected, it should not be
against the wronged and down-trodder
blacks but agaiLs 1t the vice and sensual
ity of the South which have made :sucf
conditions possible.
After the training which the negr'
has been given by the southern people
for the past century it is indeed won
der that he has no better conception
of justice or the rights OF Others Hal
the negro been observant he Nigh
have learned many things concerning
the rights of others and of justice. A
he stood in the slave mart before tn
war and saw his wife sold to one stran
ger and his weeping child tc another
what lessons of the rights of others b
might have learned. AS he hid Il
the malarial swamps, crouching in tn
slime, fearing not the poison OF tn
swamp or the envenomed serpent
sting so greatly as he did the voice Q
his owner, what view OF human char
ity he might have taken to himself. "A
he heard the lash falling on the bar
back of his brother what lessons
mercy and justice might have bee
branded into his very soul. AS he say
his daughter made the sport and tn
plaything of lustful master, wha
sweet ideals OF forgiveness should hav
grown up within him. Later as b
saw the masked band of Ku klu1
riding in the moonlight fastening t
some "nigger batting OF poor culprl
who had dared to exercise the right
guaranteed him by the constitution
as he saw the smoke of burning cabin
of those who had dared to learn to
as he saw his brothers deprived Q
every right but the right to work,
as Senator Money naively puts it, as h
saw the wealth, the learning, yea eve
the so-called Christianity of the whit
race united in one determined effort :
crush its weaker brother. it is indee
surprising that his conception
Justice andsthe rights of others" ha
not become Ola higher and noble
ordering.
"The mills of the Gods grind slowl
But they grind exceeding fine"
For every woe that has been inflicted
for every blow that has been struck
for every brokenamother's heart, TO