Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-01-05
RABBI KAPLAN
ATTACKSPURE
WOMEN
OF White Southern Pdrentdqe
In An UnCdlled-f for. Most
Vicious Article.
To The Evening citizen.

To The Evening Citizen.
Having read i'm the January issue
of The Barbarian, the one in search
of his brthright, the article on
lynching, we beg to make the follow
ing contradictions and to question the
writer's veracity i'm his assertions.
We are told in Proverbs 26:4. "An-
swer not a fool according to his folly,
lest thou also be like unto him" We
feel assured that although the writer
to whom we are replying is a Jew,
he will not in his aversion to every
thing coming from Christian source,
refuse to recognize this as being writ
ten especially for him and his people,
the chosen people of God. We trust
that we cannot answer according 10
his folly, the folly of blaspheming the
names of as pure persons as ever trod
this earth. In your disappearing the
names of these pure virgins and those
of the sacred and honorable title of
mother, we trust Rabbi, that we may
never be i'm your class. We trust, too
that we may know whereof we speak,
that We may not speak as our imagi-
nation and unwarranted sense of su-
honorable friend. the Rabbi. In be-
half of the southern women about
whom you have inexcusably prevari-
Gated, | must say my blood boils
whenever l read" and re-read as l do
this morning in The Barbarian-your
appropriately named periodical, for
nothing save true barbarian would
make such utterances as you have
made about such pure beings as they.
/ ask you, as an honorable CD Rabbi.
as a leader of a people, as a man, do
you believe the southern white wo-
man is proverblally lazy, incapable of
doing anything, incapable of earning
the salt that goes into the bread she
eats? If you do, l say that If wis
dom would land you among the saints
you'll be sure to land in hell IL this
question were taken as a basis of your
being judged.
The southern woman Is not depend
ent, body or soul upon any man, and
does not recognize any man as her
lord and master-"and this Is the un-
vanished truth" Hence she is not
her husbands slave. his toy, his play
mate and does not acquiesce in every
thing he does, for she recognizes that
she has brains, as well as her ability,
with the sweat of her brow TO make
her own living.
There is very evident an unwar-
/ ranted lie in the assertion that the
southern white woman knows and
knows well the institution concubin-
age that exists in the south. There
Is no such system In existence. 1t is
true that among some outlaws and
beings not worthy of the name of men
there are connections that will not
bear lucid description as there are
elsewhere and among other people
but TO say that the system of concu-
| binage exists I'm the south is a bare
faced lie-yes, / might say bear-faced
for II it had the bear face it would
be no more horrible, and worthy oI
disdain than It deserves as ii has been
! stated.
The southern woman does not 'grir
| and bear" She stands up for the
right and the preservation OF hel
honor and so do all southern men
men not I'm name alone, but men In
reality, men I'm the fullest sense Of
the term, men who will stand un'
! hinchingly before the muzzle of 9
cannon, if need be, to preserve thS
name of woman. Chivalry in It's mos
exalted sense has not yet passed ou
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