Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-06-15

TO prOnOte tne peucc " soCicVy o"o '"S
progress of the human race If you will
take Tom Dixon out, than ms though
YOU strung up a hundred ignorant Ne
groes. .E
Who rlade Negro Immora'2
Ike is Immoral" This is the truest
indictment which has been brought
against the Negro. He is immoral,
fearfuliy and degradingly immoral,
and It Is the lament both Of the leaders
! Of the sout and of his own race. He
was stolen nearly three hundred years
ago from the wilds of Africa and after
three hundred years contract with the
white man he Is still immoral? You
denied him the possession Of soul and
you called him beast and in all the
years he was with you you treated him
as one. The charge that he is immoral
is the worst indictment that can he
brought against slavery and the siav-
es' late master, for 1t took less than a
| year for Robt. Motfat to tame the beast
and make u moral man out of an Al
ricaner IN the jungles OF Africa and II
slavery was such beneticient institu-
ton it ought to haye more to show for
the three hundred years in which the
slave was in daily contact with the
! Christian white man.
Comparative Civilization
| But morality is not growth Of a
day and cannot be tied onto life in u
night. 1t took 1900 years of civilza'
ton and Christianity to evolute out OF
| barbarism Tillman ard a Dixon and
still they have the molars, the claws
and the bood-thirst OF the beast OF
prey, and it took forty years to solve
from slavery Booker Washington
| who could say, 81 will never allow any
| man to drag me down by making me
| hate him | have heard it rumored
| that there are white thieves, white
murderers, white rapists, white bribers
of legislatures, and it has been whis-
pered lately that there have been
white looters of life insurance funds
| first pluck out the beam out OF
thy white eye and then shalt thou see
clearly to pluck out the mote out OF
thy ;brothers's eye" and in sight OF
Gcd it can only be Il mote when we
consider our superior advantages and
from what he SO recently has come.
Plays to the Galleries.
But the impression that seems tc
prevail and to which Tom Dixon ST
effectively appeals to the galleries
that the antipathy to the Negro rises
from his crime against womanhood, i:
simply not true. Lawlessness is neve1
right and lynching is alwsysa crime
But IT the death penalty was ever ever. T. t
be defended better as punishmeD
for this most devlish of all crimes than
for any other, No punishment is too
severe for such a tiend and would
have less and almost nothing to say i
lynching parties were confined t.
those who have been guilty of this q
trocious crime against womauhood.
But what are the facts? Between thu
wears OF 1896 and 1900 there were so
lynchiugs and of these only SO wer'
for rape, 179 for murder ond 224 hav'
to be put down to mere race prejudicr
But what is the difference to the gir
or the woman whether it be q blaci
man or u white man who takes from
her the most precious possession OF he
life? And yet IT it be white man
What do you do?
Refers to Dubuque Case,
Whv YOU let the law take its cours
or you do often just what was don
with the young man who made sue
an attemp pt this last year in Dubuque
get together and sign petitions an
move heaven and earth to get him fre
and even try to get him from the clu
ches of Justice after he is landed in tn
p nitentary, whereas If he had been
, Negro he would have been strung "
to the first telegraph pole. do ne
complain so much about the punisf
ment meted out complain on'
about the discrimination as to whetf
er black or white man commits tn
crime and as to whether it is commit
ed against white or black woman