The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-17
SELL WOMEN FOR WHISKEY
DEPRAVED STATE OF SOCIETY IN
PINE BELT OF NEW JERSEY.
Vet This Country Is Sending Mission
aries to Put Mother Hubbards on
the Blacks of Cnnon REGION

the Blacks of Congo Region.
Trading a woman for a jug of
whiskey? Not in this country, this
land of the free and home of the
brave, where womankind is held in
such respect?
Yes, sir; right in the United States
of American and within 100 miles Of
New York city, the great metropolis
of a great pople who boast of the
hight which their ideals and civiliza-
ton have reached.
No, sir this is not fanciful state
ment or the effusion of an irrespon-
eible person. 1t is the Official pro-
nouncement of a state official of the
commonwealth of New Jersey
The pine belt of the state is in the
southern part, down beyond Lake
wood, where the population is sparse
and scattered, where scrub pines and
pin oaks grow and where the popula-
ton is lacking III energy and initia-
tive. 1t is there that the New Jer-
sey department of charities and cor
rections has discovred this example
of human depravity. Miss Elizabeth
Kite, a special investigator of the
department, has discovered some
startling things about the natives,
which show that they are living in a
semi-barbarous condition that would
have shamed even the aboriginal In
dams The exchange of wives or
babes for small sums of money and
red ticker" she declares, is not I'M
common. The social conditions, she
reports, are absolutely lawless, with
a great DredOEiEance of depravity.
AS a result of her investigations chill
dren from that region have been TAX
en- from improper homes by the New
Jersey Children's Home Society and
placed in institutions.
In view of the disclosures it seems
improper for the American people to
be sending missionaries to put Mother
Hubbard dresses on the blacks of the
Congo region when right at the doors
of the country's greatest city such
examples of heathenism prevail. Let
tn superciviiized and so-called cult
ured people who spend their super
fuous wealth trying to find enter
tainment for themselves in social
frivolities at places like Lakewood
and Atlantic City and Cape May and
Long Branch and even Ocean Grove
and Asbury Park take thought of
those other American citizens in the
same commonwealth of New Jersey
the state that was the Stamping
ground of the forces that contended
for American liberty, whose roads
have known the tread of the armed
hosts OF King George III, the state
that General George Washington
traversed as he went over the old
Kings highway from New York to
Philadelphia many time, the state
of Princeton University and the state
which furnishes the next president of
the United States. Let the people
take thought of these depraved citi-
zens in that state who would sell
their wives for a jug of wFFfskey; let
them bow their hea as in shame; let
the country at large demand that
these conditions be remedied at once
and rest not until this shame is wip-
ed from the state of New Jersey.
No chain is stronger than its weak
est link, ana no country is better
than it's lowest grade of society. Be-
fore we do any more boasting about
American civilization let us see that
there no place in the United States
where a man may sell his wife for
9 jug of whisKey.
Won will find that d'ruo0ie,ts nv