The broad ax., 1912-11-09

ANY law that protects the virtue OF
woman is a blessing to civilized in
teIligenee. If the law was created to
protect Caucasian women only, then
it is bias and is dangerous to civil
ization, for any law that will protect
one slave and let the other suffer vio-
lenee is destructive to all Having
law that will protect the Caucasian
woman from the vice of men is all
right if it gives the same protection
to women of other races. If under the
term "White Slave Traffic" the same
protection is given to women of other
races, then the law is q blessing, If
not, then it is bias. Men of all races
have long enslaved women among
their own race and even outside their
own race. There are in this country
today more white men guilty of slave
traffic of Negro women than Negro
men of Caucasian women. In many
large cities there are houses Of pros
tuition in which ColOred young women
and many under the age Of maturity
are slaves and Colored men are not
allowed to enter. These places are
frequented by Caucasian men and are
supported financially by them In
cases Of this kind the law should give
as much protection to the Colored
women as it does to the Caucasian.
In protecting the women Of all races
we preserve the virtue of all men.
The law does an injustice to the eau
easian woman If it does not give equal
Justice to her Colored sister. For in
stance, take q Caucasian slave and a
Negro slave in traffic, the one is as
much harmful to the good wife and
children, if her husband is inclined to
be immoral, as the other, whether he
is Caucasian or Negro. The noble and
virtuous Caucasian women suffered
much harm in days Of Negro slavery
from this very evil; thus We see the
result Of it to this very day. The
body cannot be divided; if one part is
decayed it viii in time decay the
other part. Then why not preserve
the virtue Of the Caucasian men by
checking the vice practieed with Col
ored women and change the term
"White Slave Traffic" and style it
"Female Slave Traficf" We should
not spare the Colored man who would
dare practice the traffic Of his own
women any more than if he attempted
it with Caucasian women. The law
should not be less lenisnt with the
Caucasian that is guilty Of traffic Of
women Of any race than it is with the
few Colored men who practice it with
women Of the Caucasian raee.-The
Appeal, Columbus, Ohio, November 2,
1912.
The above article is full Of the alb
solute truth in every Southern city Of
any size, including st. Louis, Mo-, New
Orleans, La, Richmond, Va, Atlanta,
Ca, and so on. There are any num-
Der Of houses Of prostitution full of
Colored women and they are kept in
stock or trade for the sole use of
white gentlemen and the Colored
women who run or conduct the houses
are constantly looking or hunting
around for the youngest and the
most beautiful Colored girls, to ad-
minister to the passing pleasure of
the White gentlemen who frequent
and support them, and. if any Negro
should be rash or bold enough
to attempt to enter one Of these
houses he would be shot down like a
common mad dog for attempting to
place himself on social equality with
white gentlemen.
Aside from these Colored houses of
prostitution for Southern white gentle
men, many Of the most prominent and
many Of the wealthiest white gentle
men throughout the Southern states
maintain leWd and brazen faced Col
ored women in fine homes for their
own private use, and provide for them
in every way, and IL any Negro at
tempts to make himself familiar with
his Colored women in any way, these
white gentlemen, who boastfully claim
to represent the highest type Of man
hood Of the so-esIed superior race, win
shoot the COlored man on the spot.
These same white gentlemen who
spend most Of their leisure time with
their COlOred mistresses and not in the
company Of their own wives and sweet
hearts, are ever ready to mob and
lynch any Negro, burn his body at the
stake or swing il up 10 the limb Of
some tree and riddle Il with bullets,
II he is merely Suspected Of looking
at . white woman
This class Of Southern white gentle