The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-16

dered the Superintendent Of Public
| Schools to think over. In the meaE-
| time. the Pure Morals crowd waits
of George Waters divided between them
and hanging from their belts.
Ialk is talk, they say, when Good
morals and Gentle Manners'' are the
| Issues. SO it is said to have become in
thls case Nashville Negroes are turn
ing their glasses on the "Publishing
House Crowd and their Good Morals"
The people OF Boyds place, seem to
thlnk there is too much laxity of NOR
ais already ia 5the schools where" the
youths are to be trained. Whether
| their conclusions are based on fact or
not is unknown. They seem to be-
lleve what the Nashville Globe insinu-
| ates, for it is their official organ. Pub
Tic opinion is up in the air at present.
Many Of the people believe that the
public has no more right to believe
| that there is Il laXity Of morals in the
! schools, than that immoral conditions
| exist among the "Publshing House
Crowd" among whom are some of the
worst talked about" people IN Nash
VILE and they were among the most
active and loud speaking actors who
recently waited upon the City Su-
pcrintendent of Schools and instigated
the present agitation", about a man
whose case seems to have been settled
IN a lawful and orderly maTlcr by
the highest court in the State Of Ten
nesSec.
The action of the Nashville Negroes
in this case, clearly shows how little
knowledge and respect they have for
the law and that they have not yet
risen above the emotional and senti-
mental state of the half-cviIized If
they disaprpoved Of the way the mat
ter was settled they surely could have
found better and more intelligent
way Of expressing their disapproyal
and bringing about the result they de-
sired. AS it is, they have perhaps
made donkeys of themselves and EN-
phaSized the oft-repeated assertion by
the white people that the members OF
the race are not yet capable of self
government because they are still so
close to the border line of barbarism.
Certainly they do not seem to know
what law, justice and liberty mean.
The last issue Of the Nashville Globe
burdens its readers with a labored
statement from the family of the girl
George Waters was acquitted Of offend
ing. Our information from Nashville.
and it comes from good authority. sup
ports the conclusions of Judge Buch
anan. The girl is a member Of Lowry
family and no member Of it is capa-
BILE of writing any such statement as
hos appeared in the Globe. Almost all
Of them were on the witness stand dur
ing the trial Of Waters and showed un-
mistakable signs Of ignorance. The
fact was brought out in the court that
some Of the children Of the mother Of
the girl wer born ont of wcdlock. Wa
ters erred in continuing his home
among a class of people known to be
prejudiced 20 the best element of the
race and willing to stoop to almost any
thing to destroy the progressive better
class of the race.
Iii the eternal fitness Of things, it
was clearly the duty of Waters as
man, citizen and teacher to relieve is
fellow citizens of embarrassment by
seeking to re-adjust himself to the cit
izen and school body in a way to keep
down strife and such polluted talk"
that seems to be going the rounds %
"Rumor' and so unwiseIy published III
the columns of the Nashville paper, The
Globe. But he was within his rights