The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-24
boxer I. Washington Calls Attention to the
Fact That the White Men Have Gwen
Jack johnson His Prominence.
|ACE BARRIERS BROKEN AT SCHOOL
drs. Aldrich Says Intermarriage Results Only
In the Degrading Of Both Races and Does
No Real Good.

United Press Leased Wire Seryice.l +
TUSKEGEE, Ala, Oct. 24.-While
ack Johnson's present predicament /
in the opinion of Booker T. Wash I
hgton noted negro educator, an !
Example OF the almost irreparable .
Injury that a wrong action on the
art of single Individual may do to
whole race" the head Of Tuskegee
ointed out, in statement prepared
br the United Press today, that it
as white men who gave Johnson the
ind of prominence he enjoys in the
nited States. The complete state i
lent is as follows:
[By Booker T. Washington
Jack Johnson's case will be settled
due time in the courts. Until the
purts have spoken, | do not care to
ther defend or condemn him. can
hly say that this is another illustra-
ON Of the almost irreparable injury
hat wrong action on the part of a
Engle individual may do whole race.
1t shows the folly of those persons
no think that they alone will bel
eld responsible for the evil that
hey do No one can do SO much In
Jury to the negro race as the negro
himself.
This will seem to many persons un-
u. 5pt,1, of fC
rue What makes the situation seem
! little worse in this case is the fact
hat it was the white man, not the
lack man, who has given Jack John
on the kind of prominence he has en-
Dyed up to now, and in other words
hut him in position where he has
een able to bring humiliation upon
be whole race OF which he is a mem
er do not believe it is necessary
br me to say that the honest, sober
lement of the negro people of the
Enited States is as severe in the kind
immortality with which Jack John
lon is at present charged as any 9TH
r portion of the community.
II Is Retaliation.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-NThe black
han who becomes wealthy or influ-
initial is now doing what he can to
etaliate against the white race for
he wrongs done his womankind un-
Ter slavery"
Tbtp cta n,,f oda tnday 1,x,
Mrs Alice Phillips Aldrich, head of
he Chicago Law and Order League,
Fho has been interested in the inves-
|igation Of the case OF Jack Johnson,
he negro pugilist who is charged
With abducting pretty Lucille Gamer
Rn, the Minneapolis white girl.
Mrs. Aldrich predicted that the free
htermingling OF the black and white
faces would result only In the degrad-
hg of both races and that it will nev-
result in elevating the negro race.
The problem of intermarriage and
htermingling Of blacks and whites is
very serious one," said Mrs. Aldrich
fhe fad for negro men to have white
Fiyes and sweethearts is growing IN
very large city north of the Ohio
association of negroes with white
lris is thriving under police protec
lon in Chicago and several Other
frge cities. In the Chicago tender
pin there were-until recently clos
d-many resorts housing white girls
nat catered to negro men.
Race purity in this country is no
here maintained, except in thu
outh. Race barriers are first broker
own in the public schools where tn,
aces and the sexes mingle indls
riminately in the class room and il
ne school.
In that period in her life, whit
Flrl is in danger from negro men, th
anger being increased by the de
ree of her poverty If the girl i
oor and works as domestic. in home
wealthy persons, hotels, or othe
places. she is forced to mingle Of
Terms of social equality, in a major
y Of cases, with negro buffers, POI
ers, chauffeurs, coachmen or otfe
bale negro help.
Sex intermingling is the most nat
ral outcome of such a situation. An
Employer who hires white girl I
hare a common condition with