The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-09-05
The Way to Save Our Women.
Tho Hanrpion

The Way to Save Our women.
The Atlanta Georgian.
Whether Hoke Smith wins or loses In the
battle OF the ballots the race question will
must be net until II Is finally answered In
the only and inevitable way.
The Georgian struck q key note on yester.
day which is still vibrating In the hearts Of
this people today.
We have learned the great truth that lynch
Ing does not stop the crime against our wo-
men. We have reached by elimination The
conclusion that other experiments mSst @ o. oe
gro race. One OF the most hopeful OF THESE
experiments seems 10 be statute authoriz
ing the mutilatlon Of the cri minal and the
branding OF him on the forehead Win & the
ing him an object of suspicion for the rest oi
time.
The other experiment is to devise some
new land mysterious form Of punishment
wrapped In darkness and in mystery which
will appeal TO the terror and 10 the superstl'
tion OF the criminal negro.
But beyond these and above these and
more potential thar all others, is the stern
and insistent demand Of our white clvlllza,
tion that the leaders OF the neero race Shall
give as from this time forth that &C. .operatIoh
Which they nave here.oIore refused negro
TRADES In central cities against the lawless'
ness OF lynching. We are tired of negro pia.
titudes and resolutions against the injustice
OF the SCUM pun toward the negro. Aud we hssc sc
preachments which cry out for law and order
on the part OF the white man, while they
spend no time nor breath nor effort in thun-
dellng 10 their own people the earnest and
passionate denunciation OF these criminals
VINO make the chief tension and the deadly
friction between the races.
IS. NOW see here: The South has for Is years
way. We have helped TO build their churches,
we nave buried their dead and helped to
MAINTAIN their living sometimes in tdleness
ana sometimes in want. But now as one
unite In tne mass OF Southern sentiment.
The Georgian lifts Its voice and protests that
henceforward 1t will give no dollar and lend
no AID and no cooperation to any negro inst'-
tutlon until It's officers, its preachers, Its
tsacoers and Its editors shall Join with us In
numbering into the ears OF the negro race
Inc warning and denunciation OF this horri-
BILE crime.
Without passion, or at least without passion
which 10 not richly due and justified, we ask
Dur brethren Of the Southern press and our
Caucasion friends and brethren everywhere
70 take this firm and unalterabie stand-that
school until they know that its preachers, ite
teachers and its editors In those institutions
are laundering the doctrine OF hell and dam.
nation TO the assailants Of white women.
NOW this Is fair. 1t Ia just, and II is right.
a The South Is living under o shadow which
no man can estimate. Men whose public du-
ties call them to public meetings are held al
home because they are actually afraid 70
and san nctity OF their own homes after night
fall. Men cannot 60 70 church for the same
reason. And this, please God, is the South.
we s ar are "a Tree tree people people and great country;
under this terror? Are we to sit still and
help to build up these negro Institutions
when they are silent and apathetic toward
best element Of our racer Are we to cooper.
ate with these people TO build up institutions
in which they do not preach the enormity OF
these ohenses? Are we to be forever held II
= q state Of seige with our women trembling In
tear and terror when they are alone? Is the
liberty which our fathers bought with theii
: blood 10 be surrendered to the foul terror oI
an alien and subordinate race!
= We Tell these teachers, these preachers and
these editors that they have the most vita
interest In this affair. II the boundaries ol
restraint are ever broken by this Caucasian
race IN WIG sptrlt OF retaliation for condi
women of the world, they themselves will be
-whelmed in the tidal wave which follows.
And We say here and now to Booker Wash
ington, to Gaines. and Turner, to Proctor and
to Stinson and TO the rest of those who are &C
eager to rush into print to plead for law and
S order, and II they have any regard for the iu
ture OF their race and for themselves, they
will take the hint which is not uukindly SEM
from this aroused and indignant race OF eau
casians, and will stand shoulder TO shoulder
with us In demanding that every preacher 10
every country pulpit and every edltOr o.
every little 2x4 sheet and that every teacher
in the city and country schools shall devote
some part OF his sermon or some portion oi
his editorial. or some segment OF his scholas
tic hours 70 preaching hell and dampation Il
all who are guilty OF this f1endish crime.
We assure these men that the Caucasian
sen timent Of this country is now being arous
ed az IL never was before. We need not and
we will not continue to have our women live
under the shadow Of this fendish negro lust
We are going to free our women no matter
what the cost may be 70 another race. There
ID no wiidness OF passion and radicalism 10
this announcement. II these men know any
s. thing they know that we demand It, and they
know that demand is firmly stern and earn
est.
When they have done their best they viii
command our commentator and the conf
dence OF our race.
But as long as they continue to how reso
= lutions against lynching and orata agains,
lawlessne ess while they are shamefully silen,
toward the crimes which produce the mob
then the back Of our band is against tn en-
and all that they represent.
- This ia the position which the present ira
gic environment sternly demands of the
saxon race, and we call upon Saxons who re
spects themselves to assume 1t every here.