The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-03-26
A Clear Case for
Missionary Work.

Missionary Work.
We are raising money all the time
in this country to send missionaries
to enHghten the heather in far dis
tant lands beyond the seas; but in all
seriousness much of this missionary
fund collected in the South would be
better employed and bring more benef-
icent results if it were used to illu1n-
mate no inconsiderable area of the
darkest North on the negro question.
Heavens, How ignorant some of
them are up there-educated people,
TOO, and even college professors who
assume to teach and guide public SEN
timent on large public questions
VIII they never understand us? VIII
they never learn the plainest, baldest
facts in the relations of the South
ern white people to the negroes, facts
of notorious. current knowledge, no
more to be mistaken by people who
have eyes and ears and ordinary in
telligence and are willing TO get in
touch with the true situation, than
are the simple facts of our geography
laid down on the school maps?
We are led to say this because OF
the extraordinary information recent
ly given to the Northern public by
one Professor Eiddings, of Columbia
University in New York, who is de-
scribed as an eminent sociologist and
who has recently gone into print to
tell his public that the negro is fast
disappearing from the South because
of the intermarriage of blacks and
whites Professor Giddingg, YOU pos
itively fatigue disgust. and If the re-
straints of reputable Journalism were
not upon us, we should be glad to
voice OF the sentiments OF the whole
body of Southern white people and
wildly inform you of what We think
of YOU
No matter if you have spoken in
honest ignorance, for there is no ex-
cuse for such ignorance when it in
wolves the brutal, stupid, senseless
defamation of millions OF your own
eountrymen. The facts were easily
TO be obtained, and it was your duty
as an honest man and a conscientious
teacher to have obtained them before
you assumed to tell the truth and ex-
press an opinion on a great socioiogi-
cal question of such vital Importance,
not only to the South, but to every
part of the country.
There are facts of certain kind so
large and luminous and penetrating.
so obvious. so quickly transmitted and
SO universally known in the limits
where they exist that they go without
saying and are never matters for
moments dispute or contention among
any class of people within the area
affected by them. One of those facts
is that there is no intermarriage, not
even in isolated instances, between
the whites and negroes of the South,
and this is just as true of the poor
whites as of every other class: and
this, too, not only because 1t is forbid
den by law in every Southern state,
but because racial instinct. custom
and tradition make it practically i'm
possible. There is never any desire
on the part of even the meanest
white man or white woman to break
this iron law which has so superbly
protected the integrity of the white
race of the South and which entities
us to the thanks and gratitude OF the
whole body of the American people.
Il never pays to call hard names
and we won't do it in this instance, but
we beg of Professor Giddings and ali
his misguided tribe. for the sake of
their own intelligence, at least, if
from no higher motive. to inform
themselves of the most notorious
facts of Southern life before they
write us down as mongrel horde I'M
worthy of our race and traditions, and
write themselves down as asses in so
presenting us to the world.
II is notorious that in the present
state and county campaigns there is
lack of sharp and definite issues to
arouse popular interest, but if the
State Ant;1Saloon League can have
fits way there will be at least one
ISSUE in every county chat will draw
the line and call upon the candidates
to declare themselves on a question
/. q vital concern TO US all. AT the re-