The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-05-19
WHITE MEN AND NEGRO
WOMEN.

WHITE MEN AND NEGRO
WOMEN.
Judge Wilkinson spoke in denun-
citation and words of warning
against white men in Brookhaven
and other communities living in
social and unlawful intimacy with
negro women, and charged the jury
to make a searching investigation
of such practices and, indict in
every case where the evidence
would warrant. Proceeding along
this line the court said:
The crime of unlawful cohabita-
tion not only corrupts the blood of
the white race, but it ruins the
negro. She flaunts herself around
on the streets and thinks that she
is as good as your wife. and would
walk over your wife on the street
simply because she is from the
country. 1t is very humiliating to
the white women of the communi-
ty. These negro women on the
streets of these little towns are
dressed finer than you can afford to
dress your wives, because the
miserable white man who will keep
one of them will resort to any sort
of means to gratlfy the whims of
these wenches. | want you to in
vestigate this in the fear of man
and in the fear of God, for every
woman and child south of the
Mason and Dixon line is interest
ed in this proposition. You are
interested in it, and If you don't
stop it just as certain as time
comes. your children will reap a
whirlwind here in this country.
You will have one OF the worst con-
fiicts here in this country that ever
darkened the annals of civilized
country. Your children are going
to suffer on account of your derelic-
tion of duty. If it is your friend
who is doing this thing. it doesn' t
matter how much you may think of
him, it is your duty to indict him,
for you should think more of your
wives and children than any man
on the top side of the earth. You
should stop this thing and you must
stop it. The man who will do this
is not worthy to live in a commune
ity with the white people. There
should be some place in the midst
of the Pacific ocean where you could
fence him in in the deepest of the
waters and compel him to remain
through his life. It is better that
he should die now rather than
to continue this. sort of con-
du ct. !.
While you are investigating this
matter | would have you gentle
men to investigate each and every
portion of Lincoln county, and if
there is such a thing going in
Bogue Chitto and these other little
towns or in the country districts, ]
want you to indict the offenders
and we will put them out of busi-
ness. The country people know all
these things, and in the little coun-
try village of Brookhaven all the
people who have any interest in
this question know the guilty par .
ties. Whether they can swear to
it or not or whether their in forma-
tion is sufficient to permit them to
swear to it, still they know it just
like they know anything else with
out seeing it. OF course, you can
not indict a man on rumor and
hearsay, but you must Investigate
this thing at any rate, and in your
invest igation OF it, If you should
not get sufficient evidence to indict
it will make them more careful on
this line. hope you gentlemen
will do your duty in this respect as
the Grand JurIes have always done
in the past, and ! will say further,
that the Petit Juries have been
prompt to respond and walk up to.
the lick-log and do their duties.
want you gentlemen to investi-
gate this particular crime. and il
necessary. spend the entire term ii
the investigation Of the crime of
unlawful cohabltation between the
races.
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