Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-12-18
ASSAILS JACK JOHNSON
AS MENACE TO NATION
Georgian Congressman Plans Law to
Prevent Intermarriage of White
and Black Races

ana DIdCk races
Predicting grewsome war unless
| the intermarriage of whites and
negroes is prohibited by law, Jack"
Johnson's marriage with Lucille
Cameron was discussed in the House
of representatives this afternoon by
Representative Roddenbery of Georgia,
who derided the laws of the State of
Illinois and of the City Of Chicago.
and urged the submission of a con
stitutional amendment, which he
offered, prohibiting such marriages.
SEES MENACE TIC NATION.
''The intermarriage of whites and
blacks is contrary and averse to the
very principles of an anglo Saxon
government, declared Mr.. Rodden-
berry 1T is subversive Of social
peace. 1t is destructive to moral
supremacy. and ultimately it will
bring this country to a conflict as
bloody and as fatal as ever the other
Udy6 udNO RAOOuNON'
1T may be but a small cloud on
the ives tern horizon, hanging over the
borders of the great lakes around that
wonderful city; it may be but the
vapors, apparently. rising from the
Atlantic at New York and it may be
hallucination around historic Bos-
ton.
If this policy is permitted in this
government. when the brown hued,
black skinned, thick Tipped, brutal
hearted African can walk into the
office of the law and demand an edict
of the courts of his state, guarante eing
him legal wedlock to a white woman
if this proceeds, challenge any
man of wisdom and insight into the
future to conjecture or propbesy
whether the result will be for the
good of this country. It is debasing,
ultra -demoralizIng and un-Ameri-
can, >
CITES LINCOLN AS OPPOSED.
President Lincoln was quoted as
saying in his debate with Douglas at
Charleston, ILL.,, in 1858: 81 am
not and never have been in favor of
permitting marriage between the
white and black races. and the as
sertion was made that the same senti-
ment prevailed among leading patriots
in the days when the slavery ques
tion brought civil war.
mo blacker incubus ever fixed
itself upon the social politics of this
republic than the embryonic cancer of
negro marriage to white people in
this country, continued Mr.. Rodden.
berry.
The 'white slave traffic in
Chicago was discussed by Mr.. Rodden-
berry in general terms, he picturing
methods employed to provide women
for the traffic. AS terrible and re.
Voting as it is, he said. it is not so
revolving as the making of a white
girl the slave of an African.
''We see in Chicago an African
with much brutal force, with no
moral character, with no stamina.
demanding marriage license to we'd
young American woman of our own
blood exclaimed Mr.. Roddenbery
with much vehemence, amid applause.
In the South, he declared ''the
negroes would commit self -destruc-
tion before they would entertain the
! thought of matrimony with a white
girl"
DO yon propose, said Rodden-
, berry, that in all the future years
the negro man wo can seize upon some
ak-minded wo nan of our race, who
can Overpersuade her and contract her
in wedlock, shall find sanction for his
acts in the laws of your states %
The speech was interrupted with
applause.