Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-24


Republican communication. It must
not heed the vile epithets and paid
hysterias that the mercenary maraud-
ers will wildly assume. 1t must not
close its ears to the pleas Of the peo-
pie, and it must not be ~intimidated by
those who will try to turn the pros
perity of all into a universal poverty,
Sc that the present unjust prosperity
of the few may be revived. 1t will
be attacked Violently in a million diff
ferent ~violences. 1t will not become
possible until its weakness is made i'm
possible. The government must keep
watch most keenly within itself and
trap those of it who for unsacred reas-
ons would sell it to its enemies.
President Farrell, Of the Steel Trust,
declares that the Steel Corporation
has been the savior Of the cotton in.
dustry Of the Seutn and were it not
that the Steel Trust did make the
bagging ties which bind the bales Of
cotton our Southern field would now
be blanketed with the rotting unpick-
ed cotton which the Steel Trust now
saves from decay, neglect and com.
plete destruction. Were it not for this
self-recommended and self-discovered
martyrdom, what poverty would not
blacken the blackened barrenness OF
our weak and WORKOUT fertile South.
ern lands. What a debt of gratitude
do we not owe our saviors--the Steel
Trust-repayable only by our com.
plete disregard of the evils they have
practiced upon us and under which
we suffer. What can we do to thank
equally in proportion to the favor done
US by the Steel Trust when they sell
US bagging ties? Should we not be
glad that we can purchase something
Of value with our American currency
and remember, too, that we have this
Rooseveltian-approved Trust which
lives on nothing but philanthropy to-
wards others? Why should we pro-
test against the sins Of our savior
when we know that but for it's mer-
cenary philanthropy we would be
a sunken.cheeked, heart-weary dying
Southern rae with our most fertile
farms vermin stricken and our homes
uninhabitable? But for this would we
not be a dying race of men in a
land of decay desolation and dreadful
disaster, horrible nights Of dreadful
hunger and a land of weeping and
crashing Of teeth, where women and
children cling to men whose work is
fruitless made now fruitful because
III this country there exists the Steel
Trust as benefactors and the people
as beneficiaries?
Jack Johnson, former heavyweight
champion, charged with violating the
Mann Act against the transportation
of women for immoral purposes, has
been found guilty or transporting a
white woman for the purposes banned
in this act on seven counts, and If SEN
fenced the maximum on each Of the
counts, he would serve ~thirty-five
years in the penitentiary and pay &c..
600 In fines. If he was being tried in
our State, assuming that he would be
still living, he would no doubt be CIV
en- the maximum penalty. The jury's
verdict was unanimous and practically
immediate. Only one ballot was TAX
en-. The well-proven guilt Of this man
is proven by this speedy decision. 1t
would be hard to propnesy as to the
outcome. 1t is easy to opine what the
ultimate result should be. The offense
is of solemn gravity. White purity
has s%acrilegiously been impurified. The
offense is against the whole white
race. And the maximum penalty is
not the minimum deserved. The max.
|imum penalty would be the complete
rectifying of the evil done the human
race. But this Is impossible. The
most drastic punishment possible is
the most perfect penalty sentenceable.
The Mann Act ~disregards the color OF
the culprit, and that is why the negro
accused is equally punished with the
white vagabond who, though he has
the criminality to do the worst. has
not the natural defilement to make his
sin as stenchful as the skulking ne
gro's, whose natural deprayed moral
ity makes his mad mongrelized sin
tarnish the white human race with an
unwashable blood streak that will
mingle for generations through the
blood of his unfortunate progeny.
Johnson's insolent attitude is due to
the locality of his crime. And where
the spirit Of the law recognizes no dis
tinction between the graveness Of the
evil done whether by a white man or
a negro. But the spirit OF men uni
versally revoltingly recognizes the diff
ference. These men know as they see
about them children Of these hybrid
sort of matings, that nature herself
exhibits the reason for this conviction