The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-12-16

FERsoNIAN the very language used bv DR..
Macarthur; showed that it corroborated DR..
Blackburn, and that did crlticise DR.. Mac
Arthur severely for the inconsistency between
what he said In that New York World inter
view and what he said in the letter to Rev.
K. Z. Cleckler So, you see, Mr.. Towson, you
don't get your facts on very straight
Now, let's come to DR.. Paul Wakefield.
Mr.. Charles Bowers the reporter of the
Charlottesville Journal, wrote me stating
that he was called to DR.. Wakefelds LODGINGS
in order that Wakefield might give him, ia
advance, the substance of his lecture. He
says that he took notes as Wakefield talked:
he says that some of the statements made by
Wakefield were unfit to print, but that every
thing which he did print Wakefield said to
him there In his room previous to the deliv-
cry Of the lecture. If he did not use In his
address to the audience in Mr.. Mansell's
Church the language which is denied by
Wakefield, and by Mr.. Mansell, it is because
he did not 90 as far with his congregation as
he did in his private talk to that reporter.
Mr.. Bowers had no motive whatever to mis-
represent DR. Wakefield, and Mr.. Bowers
writes that that report of his was never chal-
lenged by anybody until after had attacked
DR.. Wakefield about it. Observe also how
very narrow is the scope of Reverend Walter
ManselFs denial "EUery aoord Of the first
clause as quoted By Watson is antqqte" That
refers, | presume, to the alleged statement
that. There are more women missionaries de-
graded by Chinese men than there are Chi
nese men converted"
Well, it is obvious that statement of that
general character is incapable of proof, but
the important thing about the Wakefield zec-
tire eoas that the system Of indiuiduaz en-
struction Of Chinese men By missionary qoona-
Id III i
sl0ae0qy aoonaen, that the missionaries kneao
ttas, and that they acre not at all surprised
at the Elsie Sigez tragedy THAT Brother
Towson, is the terrible thing about the Wake
field lecture, and that is what Mr.. Mansell
does not deny. Write to him again: let him
see how [ put it, and then ask him whether
he denies that Wakefield said, in substance,
ave missionaries have long known this"
to wit: that the system of individual instruc-
ton of Chinese men by missionary women
leads to the degradation of many Of the mis-
sionary women.
Now, as to the other report. that made by
Mrs. Walter Mansell over the telephone to
Mr.. Clifford Peterson, reporter of the Craw-
louisville Review. Again observe how narrow
is the scope of the denial. Mrs Mansell, like
her husband, confines herself to that particu-
lar statement which was of no great impor-
lance, because, IN the nature of things, it is
impossible to prove that more missionary
women have been lost than Chinese men
saved But [ come now to what Mrs. Man
sell did not deny, and what dare say she
will not deny. The largest headline over the
report of the Wakefield lecture in the Craw-
louisville Revieao carries these words
"Women Can Never Convert Cinnamon"
Then the reporter goes on to say that those
American missionaries who know the char
acter of Chinese men, and who know that