The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-06
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 Thus The Portland oregonian:
 We do not object to white domina- ton. We do not wonder that black brutes are lynched on the spot Tor unspeakable crimes on delicate and sensitive Southern women. Doubtless the same crime would meet the same swift vengeance In Northern communt- ties. though without. let us hope. SO much fiendishness. We do not even object SO much to negro disfranchise- ment. for the suffrage was bestowed on the blacks too soon and too indiscrimt- nately for their own and the country's good. What we do object to Is this assumption of immunity from criticism. this air of outraged innocence every time a Northern man attempts to dis cuss Southern customs on their merits.
 With due reverence let us say in the inspired language of the Bible. Come now, and let us reason together" Our contemporary fairly comedies in so many words that the people of the South are neither better nor worso than are the people of other commu- mites when it comes to dealing with the worst phases of the race question. Fore crime which no true white man in the South will forgive the people of Oregon would mete out the same punishment that the people oftAlabama would do. The white people of Oregon, temporary says, would not submit to the political domination of an inferior race by conferring on them universal suffrage. These are the two main troubles in the South and we take 1t for granted that The Oregonian is ready to admit that there is little diff ference in white men on these two points.
 What then? Does not The Oregonian know that the tolerance shown by 1t in the above extract is totally wanting in a great many newspapers and speak, CTS of the North? Even the President whom The oregonian is so Loyalty sup porting, only few days ago said in effect that the Southern men who lynched negro for an infamous and brutal outrage on @ white woman were no better than the brute whom they put to death. Only last week The Hartford Times. one of the fairest papers in New England. declared that the men who lynched the. brutes at statesboro-brutes who foully murder ed father, mother and three little chill dren-The Times asserted that the white avengers were no better than the negro murderers.
 These are fair examples of what we
 
 sources and from sources from which we feel that we have a right to expect something better. Doth The Oregonian wonder that Southern men resent such criticism as this and revolt against 1t? Does it wonder that we have neither patience nor federation for such un- fairness and injustice? We know very well that the Southern people in many ways lay themselves open to criticism. and they submit to it with as much patience as any people on earth, but there Is a limit to human patience and that limit Is not infrequently passed.
 What we of the South rightfully object to is the conceit and Pharisaism which leads some Northerners to as- sume that they are better than we. that they are better informed then we about Southern affairs, and that they there- fore have a right not only to teach us but To try us and condemn us for what they are pleased to term our shortcomings. It is this constant iteration of advice and criticism, so often both mistaken and malicious, that we resent and propose to continue resenting To sum up. we deny that the people of the North or the West are better citizens. better men and wo- men or better Christians than we are. And, finally. we beg to assure a certain element North of us that they can give credit by minding their own business, curing their own ills and repenting of their own sins.