The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-15
A CLARENCE POE
My Impressions of Beautiful Hawai-;

upon me more strongly than ever before the i'm
peiallVe need for a crusade against a Southern
evil winch 1t is a mark of squeamishness and not
VI WISDOM 10 Ignore, a crusade working as in
Louisiana both through legislation and more
thoroughly aroused public sentiment. Making
an address at negro college in the South last
spring asked the cooperation of the blacks also
"Iseu them 10 seek by all means to develop pride
OF race which would make them both anxious TO
snow what the negro may do without infusion of
white blood, and ready to build up their own race
rather than make alliance with the vicious and i'm
moral of our race. And as an illustration of the
lnsidious menace to the purity Of our blood may
mention that in the very town in which spoke l
happened to know of two octoroons who pass as
white, and had completely crossed over the line"
The severest penalties both of law and of social
ostracism should be visited upon every man of
Caucasian blood, who worse than a traitor to his
country, is traitor to his race in the one way
alone which can menace its supremacy-the grad
ual development of a more and more mongrel or
mixed population until the subtle and insdious
infusion of alien blood Gas in the couple of in
stances just mentioned) might forever pollute the
pure heritage for which forgotten ages have bat
tied. In the long result of time it is as true of
races as or individuals that the sin always re-
turns to plague the wrong-doer the Nemesis in
herent in nature unfalingy pursues the transgres-
sor and the Frankenstein which the worse ele-
ment OF our race has already called forth, even
now grns hideous menace to our future The
mixture OF different stocks of the same race is
said to produce stronger type; the mixture of
different races is seldom productive of anything
but far-reaching evil.
These thoughts which my observation long ago
formed into opinions and later deepened into my
most fervent convictions, are so strikingly illus
trated by what saw in Hawaii that | should be
unfaithful to myself and to my love for the South
IL | allowed any fear Of blunt speaking to keep
me from reporting a situation in which I find all
or,tv, ala
and all the city sleeping, almost the whole
South now seems to be. The recent legislation in
Louisiana is step in the right direction, though
| think 1t does not go far enough. To every man
and woman in the South is given the high duty of
bringing about legislation, and better STILL thor
oughly aroused public opinion which will both
punish and ostracise those who. have said,
worse than taitors to their country, traitors
TO their blood and to their race.
And in this connection wish to bear tribute
to the splendid work of Rev. A. H. Shannon, of
Ocean Springs. Mississppi,-cr aloud with all
the conviction and earnestness Of Hebrew proph
et-and also to Hon. Frank d. Winston whose
wel-conceived and almost successful effort to get
a proper law through the North Carolina Legsla-
ture has never received the recognition it merits.
Valued Recognition OF Southern Progress.
Turning now to happier subjects, am remind
ed that in the same pamphlet issued by the Ha-
waian Promotion Committee already mentioned,
| discovered another reference to our Southern
States more gratifying than it's reference
to ante-bueum social system-so interesting
a statement to be found away out here four thou
miles from home that cannot forbear reprinting
the paragraph in full:
THE great material prosperity of the Is
lands has been developed along a single
line-sugar The people have been asleep
to other possibilities Of development and
only partially awakened to the true
facts. The cotton States of the South, and
the vast wheat and cattle ranches Of Califor-
MIA have passed from situations similar to
that the Gross Roads of the Pacific is just