The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-03-30
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compel the people of a city to build and sustain
school for five or six negro children? Not when
they know that their child, though having a col
ored class-mate, can yet be taught the superiority
OF the white race. And | might add here that a
Nebraska child, when two years old, is able to
understand that he is superior to the black The
people OF Nebraska find it both cheaper and more
impressive to teach their child by precept and
practice the difference of the two races There
fore you cannot find the Nebraskan who was once
cIass-fnate Of the negro, becoming the father of
a mulatto
You say in Nebraska there is no law against the
lntermarrage of the two races, which is true
speaking only Of the written law. How about the
unWritten law? The peopl. of Nebraska do NOT
have to be forced into decency by law Within
the borders you might find intermarriage of
the two races, though if such exists | do not
know it, and I have travelled the state quite ex-
tensivey. Should I choose from your state and
take to Nebraska as bride one of your delicate
Browns who could truthfully boast that her
father was one Of Those Gentlemen of the South
of whom so much is written, do you think that
would expect recognition from my fellow citizens?
Well, not exactly. Permitted to live in the state
without being mObbed? Yes. But to be recog-
nized as a man? No. And my wife as a lady?
NO. The thought is amusing. In Nebraska men
are not judged according to breeding, but accord
ing TO evidence Of raising; Therefore, the pre-
emlnence OF her sire would be neglected because
OF her odor; and here you may be able to explain
dlnerence in social equality, which 1 fail to
understand.
In which am 1 the greater sinner and friend to
social equality? In that l marry negro girl
raise family of dusky children which l en-
deavor to educate and instruct in both social and
civil matters giving them fair start in life So
as TO stay clear of the gallows; or on the other
hand, marry white girl, live a bachelors life
take cOOred mistress who bears me children
which are put into the world without anv educa-
ton, without moral or civil training nothing save
the craving of a bestial father with start only
Tor the gallOWS and convict camp. 1t is NOT so
much Booker T. Washington who is filling your
prisons as it is your white man, who throws his
colOred sons to go to the Devil.
The former condition may be found in Nahras-
ka, though | doubt it; the latter is found in your
anti-social equality State too often to mention
DO you deny it? The men yielding to such prac-
t1ce not being the poor and ignorate from a
worldly viewpoint, but rather those of social
standing with the influence of wealth. Does the
law OF your state forbid this? Do you raise your
voice against 1t? In your speech at Atlanta when
concerning sociay equality in Nebraska, did you
condemn the practice of it in your own state?
why did you show partiality? If not then on the
ground that you condemn Bryan you condemn
yourself And II your state condemns it not then
as you condemn Nebraska you condemn your
state
have been Informed by Southern men where
coulo be found white woman the mother of
three negro children, also of negro with white,
wife Another one said, pointing to his child
Its fact, that child has colored relations
IN this country than she has white ones" All
this in Georgia. These conditions | do not saw
are approved of and winked at by your people in
general, neither do I say that by them should be
judged the morals of your people, but Won know
without restraint these things go on But these
things | do say prove social equality in Georgia,
as much and more than your assertion against
Nebraska proves social equality in that state
why go so far away as Nebraska when you can
find better evidence at home?
Simply for political reasons, of course;
politician will assert what is untrue to gain his
point A statesman will not. statesman will
try to better conditions at home; he wins on his
own honor A politician endeavors to win by
defects in his opponent.
DO not write this in defense of Mr. Bryan, but
II Mr.. Bryan, on your basis, believes in and
would promote social equality, the state should
Ii the state of course the citizen citizar,