The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-29
WORK FOR THE FooL-KILLER

vous for cranks and cranks with
wheels working overtime.
Georgia has her share Of these
freaks who manage, somehow or the
other, to butt into her legislature only
10 bring derisiOn and ridicule TO the
state by introducing crazy bilis.wh
do credit to the "Bingville Literary
club"
The following from the esteemed
Florida Times-Union is only a sample
Of what newspapers generally outside
Of the state are saying about these
| freaks and their measures:
Something unique is proposed in
Georgia for the purpose of getting rid
Of the negro vote. II is proposed that
good character be made a requisite
for registration and that this shall
include such character as they may
be trusted by modest, chaste and
virtuous female with a feeling of Sc
curity to her person, when not at.
tended by an adequate protector, In
the dark or in other place of seclus-
ion. The bill also provides that if
the registrars judgment is questioned
by an applicant the word of two
chaste white women of good stand
ing before the registrar will be suffi-
cient.
Just how that would eliminate the
negro vote we do not see unless one
of the qualifications of the registrar
were the belief that no negro woman
was modest, chaste or virtuous. Other.
wise, negro women would qualify
Aegro men. -
Under this law the registrars
would assume some very delicate re-
probabilities. 1t would devolve on
them to decide what women were
modest, chaste and virtuous. OF
course they might decide that all
white women were. modest, chaste and
yirtuous and all negro women were
not if they were not as good as chick
en- thieves. But on the assumption
that the registrars would be as good
IS chicken thieves if not better if
they attempted to make any discrimi.
nation, it would not be based solely
on color lines. Then if the people
OF Georgia are like they used to be
the registrars should have their Of
fices in undertaking establishments,
for when one of them questioned the
chastity of Georgia white woman
he would need coffin and need it
quick. The death rate among regis
trars would be heavier than that of
any plague-infested city the world
ever saw.
1t is monstrous to assume that
every negro woman is unchaste. Equal
- "i"hSti Jus 10 II TO assume tnat
every negro man is of the character
of the fiends that the law is never
permitted to touch in the South. Dur
ing the war between the States the
white men of the South went to the
front, leaving their women and chill.
dren unprotected from the slaves. If
they needed protection they knew
they would be protected by slaves.
FROM one end of the South to the
other not one case was known where
the negro violated his trust. We
know that some of them would now
but 1t would be outrageous to say
that all of them would.
Imagine Southern man going to
the registration office and dragging
with him some woman he respected
TO have her say she would trust her.
self in the dark with him! Imagine
the pleasure that a modest woman
would feel in discussing such matters
oefore the registrar and the crowd
that she might meet in his office! The
idea is sickening.
And all this to get rid of the 5000
or 5000 negroes who can vote in
Georgia and who don't elect so much
as a coroner from St. Marys to
Lookout mountaih
1T is perfectly obvious that the
toolkliler has not done his duty in