The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-10-25
The UHITE MANS HERITAGE.
written for the Telcgram.)

The newspapers in the States that
have laws against the intermarryins
Of the white and black races are at
the present time displaying an II
told you-so'' air towards the States
that have not, although some of the
reprimanded States could with justi-
fication lift their hands In the atti-
tude of mind called holy horror" at
the fact that most of the States that
prohibit the marriage Of whites with
blacks do not prohibit child labor.
ncr make any certain amount OF edu-
.cation compulsory. The most pro-
gressive Of States is backward in
some things. Also, it is to be re-
menhbered that many States that fail
to deal with the negro question as.
theoretically. it should be dealt
with. have no negro question to
speak of. A woman lived for thirty
years in certain locality in Micht-
gan which contained two or three
towns larger than Lakeland. In all
that time she had seen two or three
adult negroes, and no negro children.
A certain town in Ohio about as
large as Lakeland had, at the time
tie writer lived there, three negroes,
an old nanny and her grown-up
twin sons. The negro population in
northern cities has Increased rapidly
in the last few years. hut one good !
reason why many northern States
have no laws against the marriage
Of the white and black races is tina;
the necessity for such laws has not
been made plain, Just rs most of the
States have no laws against the in
tormarrying of the white and the |
Monaghan races, and maintain no
separate schools for Mongolans
But. all this explanation is not |
written as an excuse. Laws against |
the intcrmarryng of the races, we
should have by all means in every /,
State to which negro can by any |
possibility travel No law can who'll !
ly prevent the crime AT which il is |
aimed. hut it can II least stand as an |
expression of public opinion on the |
natter
However, he cure for all our ills |
lies deeper than the influence OF the
law can reach. Let it be understood
that in the North as in the South |
The white wife of Il negro is pariah.
absolutely without caste in either
race. She is hated by the negroes
as she is drspscd by the whites. A !
fact, not known TO those who have /,
not lived in large cities where j .
between the two races
takes place. is that the
white wife Of negro is with on.
Exception such Il woman as no white
man makes his wife The exception
is the foolisliy, morbidly scnlmcn-
tai young girl who would marry any
one if she could feel that she was
being sacrificed on the altar
CT romance. What can be said when
Il girl already outside the pale takes
the only step but death that can free
her from the awfulness of her pres
cnt way of living The reader may
answer that question. The prcvcn-
tatives of the young and silly girls
folly are a wise mother, sound. di
rect education in the ideals of wom-
anhOOd, and the nOn-cXstcncc of the
negro and Japanese chauffeur
All this we owe to our daughters.
and what do we owe to our SON"
For. sad as the fact is. the hundreds
Of people Of mixed blood in the lar@e
cities are not the children of white
mothers, nor born of lawful, even if
VII kcd, marriages. Our sons need
guidance and direct cdu
ration in the ideals Of manhood.
Let it be said here that II there
is any race peril in this country
II there is ever to be any race peril
in this country--the source will not
be the black race but the yellow
ace that We are developing here
Positively. the more white blood a
negro has the more dangerous h" j
o the nation. II silly girls eope
With the thick-lipped, nat-nosed sous
If Africa, how much more likely are
hey to elope with a young man
My shade or two darker than
themselves. in whose veins Anglo
saxon blood is dominant! II is the
nature of white blood to rise. and it
etains that tendency even when
Weighted down with the adultcra-
ion of African blood. II the conn
ry is ever to see a race war, a pos
ibility that some people fear, it
will not be a war between the An