The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-11-08

iiOjnCltSob ElIl MHpSt Vt1u kUNlt-t
time ago from effects of a criminal
operation caused a sensation in a
certain Western city was no less
surely murdered by the respectable
(?)married man who ruined her
than if she had been attacked sud-
denly upon a dark street or lonesome
country road. And if she had lived,
the effect upon her character and af-
ter life would have been something
to which the fate Of the negro brute's
victim is in no way comparable.
hope that l am not an ungrateful
member of my sex, but truly, con
sidering the moral standards of men
in general, the present crusade to
protect the purity of white woman
hood seems to me about the most
exquisitely funny thing that u ma
tional life has developed in many
years. 1t might save the life of a
considerable number. Of Negroes if
he who is without sin among the
lynchers could be required to fire the
first shot. If womanhood is indeed
so sacred a thing, it is hard for me
to understand why it is only to revered
and guarded when accompanied by
a white skin. Also the protection OF
white women against occasional
assaults of black men would ap-
peal to be a somewhat inadequate
provision for maintaining the much
desired race purity" The following
pleasant little story of an ex-Confed-
crate officer, gentlemen and father OF
a family, will perhaps illustrate my
meaning:
Several years ago ne and his family
were living in the home OF the young
woman who told the story to me. she
said:
Colonel Y. was simply wild over
the Booker Washington incident;
he could hardly talk of anything else
but the outrage Of it, and the kind Of
man it must be who would associate
with a niger. Well, that winter NAM
ma had the worst time with her
house-girls; she just couldn't keep
one a month to save her life. Final
ly, when a particularly good one gave
notice, mamma concluded to ask her
why she wasn't satisfied with the
place. She said: 4 like the place well
enough, Mrs. E., but you can't keep
any house-girls as long as Colonel Y
stays here Then she told mamma
that that was why every girl had left;
that there was no place in the house
where they were safe from the ad
vances of Colonel Y; that he ever
stopped them in the halls and fol
lowed them into the rooms where
they were doing up the work" Al
this same young lady had previousl!
recounted to me her Indignation a
seeing a colored woman in one Of tn,
large stores actually trying on a silk
lined suit, trying to dress as well a
white people," it will not be suppose,
that she was influenced by any "acs
demic" doctrines of negro equalit,
when she ended by saying:
Il don't like niggers any bette
, than anybody, but it did make m
tired to hear a nan who vas ready t
:. make love to the blacklist negro serV
and girl, rant about the CONTAINING
ton of sitting down to lunch with
man like Booker Washington"
Since this uncompromising defend
er of trace purity" and foe to "socif
equality" is prominent and influentii
in high social c%irlces, the assumptio
seems moderately just that anon
his associates his methods Of warfal
for social betterment in the South a.
considered neither unusual nor unb
coming. But it would be unjust
say that all this talk concerning Il
protection of white womanhood"
now confined exclusively to Southel
men. A rather strong novel appearC
recently whose plot hinged upon tn
very idea. I read it as the one-sid,
plea Of a clever monomaniac upon Il
paramount Southern issue. Gre
was my amazement to learn a fe
months later that he was born in F
publican Iowa. And, speaking
Iowa, it was it's capital city viii
distinguished itself not so very To-
ago by attempting, even if not so
! fensively as Southern papers joyol
ly reported, to draw "the color lin
in the Presbyterian General Asse
bly,; what is even less to the cit
credit, tho less generally known,
small riot occurred on its streets Il
summer because a woman was push
off the sidewalk by some disorde
negroes, and the Register and Lead
known ordinarily for it's editor
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