The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-29
APPROVING LAwRsNcE's Arrs-
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 It is amusing to observe the simui- taneous outburst of indignation. on the part of the amendment orsans. over The Advertisers cartoon npon Brooks Lawrence, and the miscesen- aticn of Ohio. The word has been sent out apparently to pretend the cartoon was most dreadful insult to Southern womanhood. Witness this degree of excitement to which Tho Birmingham News has Iaboriousiy warmed itself up:
 When the distiIiers placed the pie Sares of nude white women upon whis the low negro dives of Alabama. there by sowing seed which rfpened into namelsss outrages upon Alabama wom- had been reached. but recent events events have demonstrated that the worst was
 "some of the cartoons being circuiat- ed in the interest of those who seek to again saddle the saloon upon Ala bama, deserve q place tn the hall Of infamy quite as high as that given the . gross insult to omsn6o ood and ( suggestion to the drink filled negro to prey upon defenseiess femaies.S Among the lot |. one which pictures q pretty marriage altar leaning on the arm of a big back negro. 1t has no more con- nection with the fight now on in Ala bama than 1t has with the spots on the sun" 54f
 Neither had that cartoon any more insult to womanhood in it than it had relation to the spots on the sun. The News and It's colleagues are sim ply making themselves ridiculous.
 It Is significant fact that neither The News. nor any of Its co-worlsers. reproduced this awful cartoon in or der to emphasize its horrors. Nsith- CT has one of them dared describe it. They simply assert that it was out of the bottomlesss pit. Now The Advertiser has no apology to make for that cartoon. which 1t originated. and of which the so-ealled whiskey interest knew nothing before its publication. The cartoon repre- scented Dictator Brooks Lawrence in the act of condemning an Alabama white woman making. blackberry wine and at the same time shutting his eyes to an Ohio white woman marry ing a negro. Now does The News de- ny the accuracy of those realities? Is Y.uru tr. ArA AZ way. condemning the Alabama white woman as doing fearfully immoral thing in making wines at homer And has he not left his home state. it's miscegenation laws and practices, to come to Alabama to condemn and to war against immeasurably better things? What has he done to stop white women in Ohio from marrying negroes? Has he preached a sermon in Ohio against 1t. or has he raised a dollar anywhere to change the laws there? Has he not shut his eyes tight toward that unquestionabie insult to all white womanhood. Northern as we'll as Southern? Is he not trying to get a mote out of Alabama's eye while ignoring the beam in ohio's eyee
 Would t not. be vel for The News and the Other samendfnsnt ciacqueurs to stick their heads in cold water a while. and then try to see things in their right perspective? Are they defending Brooks Lawrence's attitude towards. misesgenation in Ohio? Is that their conception Of devotion to Southern womanhood? When they condemn that cartoon. they defend Brooks Lawrenee's attitude. There Is no getting around that plain truth.
 Now watch them squirm. or else stick their heads in the sand. and like os- triches think nobody sees their dis