The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-26
Letter to The Editsr.
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 Editor of Advertiser,
 I note that Booker Washington has issued another manifesto as to the lynchings of negroes---this time from Baltimore. All good and awabidins people agree with him in deprecating mob law and advocating a fair trial carnival of crime throughout the land and not confined to any section, race or creed. Murder, arson, rape and the whole catalogue of crimes are ram. his country It surely is blot on Christian Civilization. or any other civilization. It bodes no good for our future progressive stability as Tree republic.
 only denounce lynching, but denoupce and anathematize the crimes wnlcn cause them. Every effect has a cause remove the cause and the effect will cease. Predicate the crimes and mop law is without excuse. Lay the axe at the root of the tree
 Becker miminizes the number of lynchings of negroes for rape. lie should put on his spectacles. Perhaps es esmina aGss nDs insuts fHpn to .ni White
 Tn the same issue of The Advertiser publishing his card was the report oi an attempt at 9eorgiana. Perchance he did not or will not see that report; None are so blind as they who will not see. As I write I see another report in Jefferson County If instead or spending So much time in the North begging for money for his school, ne would devotesa part of his vacation to featuring the negroes on moral lines If he or the mistaken philanthropisIs; who give so much to educate the ming of the negroes wpuli assign, one na!i of 1t. to the education of their nearl, for humanity and Christian civilization. : If Booker and other leaders of their race will start q propaganda among their. followers and the negroes gen erally against vice and immorality o,n.a grsa sn valent in. their race. no doubt they could accomplish much good. Let them advise the negroes for their own m divi3ual and the general good 10 leave of the cities to quit gambling, pistol toting and secret society meetings ana go to the farms and lead a sober, honest and industrious life, Let them nke Peter the Hermit begin crusade and Divine, especially criminal assaults on women, preach it from the pulpit, proclaim 1t from the rostrurn, rom the house tops and in their society nails; let them go into @ .ns nisnwsst sntrsst and threaten them. denounee the, perpetra- tors of such crimes and conspirators to murder or approve of murder in thetr lodge rooms Let them exhort the negro to aid the officers of the law m crime and assist in prose- cutting and bringing the guilty to Jus tice, especially the brutes who crimi- nally assault white women. That IS the unpardonable sin--the crime wnieh will not be condoned. It must cease.
 This course will have better effec. than all the tnunders from Mount sinai all the lectures at long range rom printing presses in northern cites. they succeed they prove themselves of their race. true philan- thropists; if they fail they will have the satisfaction to know they have done their duty,
 Let them inculcate the ten comma nd, ments and everywhere and on eli proper occasions add and move to the decaIoRue--the 11th commandment-
 .srhou shalt not assault wnite women" The penalty is death.
 If thou eat of the fruit of that tree. thou shalt surely die.
 If they do this and the negroes hearken to their voice, and curb their brutish instincts the races will live Tn harmony and better understanding ana all the nation will rise up and call them blessed"
 Selma Aug. 24 1908.