The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1907-11-28

n
waited patiently for the question
to be opened by older and more
highly-respected citizens than my
self. It has COME at last, and from
proper source-Mr. Martin,
philanthropist, and Bro. Jones, one
of the few clergymen who has the
moral stamina to open his mouth
and keep it open on question so
vital to our general veal. But the
question is, why call them scarlet
women Ca reflection on this er-
mime shade) when our Savior
dubbed them ''harlots" Can we
at this late date improve or soften
the terms He used when so many
natures have been blighted and
lcursed by the devilish sway of these
foaters of hell Read the history
Iof Sodom, Gomorrah, Leboim and
Admah. Then take Mosheim as
he corroborates the Old Testament's
account Of the withering blights of
our Jewish brethren in their stren-
uous march before Jehovah, when
their young men fell by thousands
I
from association with these alien
death dealers. and think NOT that
the curses Of Almighty God are
now extinct. All, no but this was
physical death. one of Gods many
blasts. We might stand, as did
Moses, on some mountain peak,
and weep in bitter sorrow over the
moral degradation of modern man
hood and anent womanhood, bat
we haven't time. We must act ac-
cording to those good men who are
wailing i'll the tomb.
! We fight the yellow Peril"
with the vigor and power of a cir
cular saw, and swallow the "black
periP' as a sweet morsel. when ev-
cry day in our midst is falling young
men into moral death and contami-
mating diseases, adding sorrow to
pure hearts, and draping homes in
mourning. What can we do and
how can we do it? These good
men did not tell US, hence we are
left to reason. We have laws and
we have officers and we have plen-
ty of the sublimest sentiment. We
have governors to proclaim and
tribunals as exchequers, but still
vagrancy, harlotisn, and mendaci'
5 ty outweighs religion-hence thi:
t opportune question. what can we
5 do?
/ can not believe that either O
: the measn mentioned will evei
5 accomplish anything for to such
) class the law has no terrors, gov
ernors can infuse no dred and sen
timent has no weight, unless WELD
, ed by the motor of brawn-anC
f, here, let me say, publicly and abov'
, board, 1 would like to lead raw
5 hide brigade to the pitch of battle
S and honestly believe that more cal
Z! be accomplished in small skirmisl
r than can be done by all the officers
E courts, or governors. in a decade
t I have been there by history, ant
e know the effects by experience
a An honest confession, but for tn
2 sake of my native land, her yout
J and her homes, I would again lik
j. to make war on the cuticle of th
L brothel maker, as the safest, sure:
It and only means of correcting th
ie evil, I deprecate them from th
t bottom of my heart and ! depr'
t cate their mongers as DiviniI
I'd hates sin. I believe that the ma
Iy ried man who will leave the sa
ne City of home for negro conc
ar binage, or the young man who w
IL forget his high caste, are prowler
m indeed, in all the slush and filth
ed the lowest humanity, and incapah
e of uplifting the worst polluted de
a. lis +; and yet, on every hand, TO
p and aft, we see the damning
OF suits. Aye, more, we have know
few women to forget themselv'
a. their God, and their country, a
" rningle with Ethiopian lust to RAJ
OF up mules of humanity in open v
ed lation of order, decency and la
d. unchecked and unchallanged
he better sep uent. We do not IA
ist to hunt for this, but simply 10
on around you. What does it mea
An objectionable negligence Of
community which tolerates it, a