The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-08-31

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must be met until it is finally ah-
swered in the only and ineYta-
BILE way.
The Georgian struck a key note
on yesterday which is still vi
brating in the hearts of this
people today, ,-e 80. sgss7ssisssssitasss..S
We have learned the great
truth that lynching does not stop
the crime against our women.
We have reached by elimination
the conclusion that other expert
ments must be tried to intimi-
date the criminals of the negro
race. One of the most hopeful
of these experiments seems to be
a statute authorizing the mutila-
tion of the criminal and the
branding of him on the forehead
with the letter r. significant
of his crime and making him an
object of suspicion for the rest
of time. :
The other experiment is to de,
wise some new and mysterious
form of punishment wrapped in
darkness and in mystery which
will appeal to the terror and to
the superstition of the criminal
negro. >
But beyond these and above
these and more potential than
all others, is the stern and insis-
tent demand of our white civili-
zation that the leaders of the
negro race shall give us from
this time forth that cooperation
which they have heretofore re-
fused. The South is growing
Indignantly tired of negro TRADES
in central cities against the law
lessness of lynching. We are
tired Of negro platitudes and res
olutions against the injustice of
the South toward the negro.
And we have utterly lost pa
tience with those pacific preach
ments which cry out for law and
order on the part of the white
man, while they spend no time
nor breath nor effort in thunder
ing to their own people the ear
nest and passionate denunciation
of these criminals who make the
chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
Now see here: The South has
for 25 years befriended the ne
groes in every practical way.
We have helped to build their
churches, we have helped to sus-
tain their schools, we have buried
their dead and helped to main
tain their living sometimes in
idleness and sometimes in want.
But now as one unit in the mass
of Southern sentiment, The
Georgian lifts it's voice and pro-
tests that henceforward it will
give no dollar and lend no aid
and no cooperation to any negro
institution until it's officers, it's
preachers, it's teachers and it's
editors shall join with us in thun-
dering into the ears of the negro
race the warning and denuncia-
tion Of this horrible crime.
Without passion, or at least
without passion which is not
richly due and justified, we ask
our brethren of the Southern
press and our Caucasian friends
and brethren everywhere to take
this firm and unalterable stand
that they will help no negro
church, newspaper or school un-
til they know that its preachers,
it's teachers and its editors in
those institutions are laundering
the doctrine of hell and damna-
ton to the assailants of white
women.
Now this is fair. 1t is just,
and it is right.
The South is living under a
shadow which no man can esti-
mate. Men whose public duties
call them to public meetings are
held at home because they are
afraid to leave their families
alone even in the shelter and
sanctity of their own homes after
nightfall. Men cannot 20 to
church for the same reason.
And this, please God, is the
South. We are a free people
and a great country. Are we to
live forever under this shadow
and under this terror? Are we
to sit still and help to build up
these negro institutions when
: they are silent and apathetic
toward the peril in which thei,
criminals put the best element OF
our race? Are we to cooperate