The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-11-01
What State Editors are
Saying.
Anent Jack Johnson

Anent Jack Johnson
Tampa Times: 1t is inconceivable
to US here in the south that woman
whose skin is white can so far debase
and degrade herself as to voluntarily
submit to the foul embrace of a brute
whose very person is offensive to
every physical sense. But the light
in which these matters are looked
upon in the north is quite widely diff
ferent from the view taken of them
marriage or illicit, is forbidden under
severe penalties.
Here the innate and instructive feel
ings of the dominant race has deem
crystaliZed into the form of statute
law, and in all of the states miscege-
nation, whether under the form of
under severe penalties.
The fact that such intermarriage
is not forbidden in most of the states
of the north and that there is much
greater laXity in the matter of SOC
ial equality of the races is responsible
for such nauseating affairs as this
of johnson and the white girl in
Chicago. There being in those state
many more opportunities for per-
sonal approach, such lamentable af-
fairs are now and then heard of
there.
Here is the roll of shame. Mis-
cegenation is permitted in the fol-
lowing states, all of which are in the
north: all of the New England states,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvan-
ia, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Iowa the Dakotas,
Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Wash
ington. 1t is prohibited in all the
rest.
We firmly believe it to be essen
tial to the racial integrity of the
whites to their preservation from ny
bridization with all that that I'M
speakable calamity implies, that
stringent laws prohibiting under the
severest penalties that can be de-
vised, social or sexual intercourse be-
tween black and white should be ad-
opted in each and every state and by
the national authority, and that the
only fitting and adequate punishment
for the violation Of such law would
be death for both parties.
The Shame of Chicago
Tampa Tribune: If Jack Johnson
should commit such transgression in
Southern community, all barriers
of law and order would be swept as
ide by the storm of public indigna-
ton and his body would swing from
that most conspicuous pole or tree
as an object lesson to those who
would emulate his hellish example.
But this sort of thing appears to
be all right in certain sections of
this great and glorions Union, and
in a city of white skins but craven
hearts, this big black bruiser is
not only permitted to snatch from the
home circle a white girl of tender
years but to openly insult and hu-
initiate the agonized mother who has
to so far lower herself as to plead
with him to release her child.
And the complacent authorities OF
Chicago who, evidently bend AMI
kowtow in the presence of this dis
tinguished citizen" beg him to "be
so good" as to appear "at his con-
venience" and make a statement as
to his relations" with white girl
q girl of their own race.
Shame upon the citizenship of Chi
CdPO IldJ IL IOleIdJeS SUCH DdTt-
faced affront to every instinct OF
Christian civilization and to every
white mother and daughter in the
land! Shame upon a city, which,
boasting it's Americanism, holding
second place among the cities of our
country, will permit to remain within
its limits, and to occupy a place Of
honor and respect, this product of
the baser strata of human society, this
black beast who, because he can hi
harder and fight faster than the 9th
err animals of his profession" is ele-
waited to a position of supremacy
among his kind-and who, because of
the sluggers he has outslugged, the
brutes he has out-bruted, disregards
the line of color which is respected |
by the great majority of his race, |
seizes for himself the privileges of |
the white man and gloats over the !
downfall of the white woman he has
ruined!