The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-02-20

lie says, Il am SatSueQ tnat ln(
teaching and example Of the Waite
members Of the faculty can resul
only in the development of the stu.
dents of Benedict college into usefu
coloced citizens when l saw Will
my own eyes, and do not have to be
told as to that, one of his white wo
men teachers walking across his cam,
pus with one arm around negro boz
and one arm around a negro girl.
saw that did not have to get il
from negro. And I remarked at the
time, to the party with me, That
-- ought to be driven out Of this
State; such things as she does create
a lust in the hearts Of those black
imps and make them commit rape, or
assaults with intent to rape, upon the
white women of our State I pre-
sumo that is what he calls industry
and respectable bearing"
He admits in his fifth paragraph
that they did have a reception or
"sociable,' and that the girls served
refreshments, such as ice cream
and cakes, which the boys buy for
them" There you are, teaching the
very ,hings which I have called atten-
ton 70, leading these negro boys to
wish for closer association with
white girls. You can not get around
it. Your negro-loving president ad-
mits it,
He says he has a white teacher
from Virginia I am sorry to say
there are as low-down people in Vir-
ginia as anywhere else-some Of
tham. We have scme in South Caro-
liua. He says that sne has never ad-
miitcd that she saw The things charg-
Ell by the goyt;1or. Of course not.
Would you expect her to admit it?
Those who do these kind Of things
will never admit it.
He says he regrets Exceedingly
that the work which we are doing"
should have aroused the antipathy
of an one" If the white people Of
Columbia, in my opinion, would do
their duty, they would order those
white teachers out there to leave the
city, and if they didn't leave within
"a hours they would have to suffer
the consequences, and they would
leave a placard, "Thus, always with
white people who associate on terms
of social equality with free negroes.
Your college is a stencil in t.:,e nos
trils of all decent people. Your mixed
faculty sent this picture out, so [
have been Informed, and believe, to
show to the negro boys Of this State
that eff you will come to our college
Won can associate with white people;
YOU can have the hope inspired in
your breasts that some day u tan
associate on equal terms with the
white girls of South Carolina" This
inducement held out to these negro
boys, my belief is, is for the purpose
of making money for the institution.
And the white men and white women
who teach these negroes these things
are, in my opinion, lower than the
negroes, and deserve the contempt OF
every decent white man and white
woman in South Carolina. In my
opinion, your college, of which you
are members of the board of trus-
tees, is doing more to try to bring
about social equality than anything
else in South Carolina-yours and
similar institutions like it-but, thank
God, you can not do it, because If
there be any attempt to carry out the
teachings of these negro-loving pres
idents and negro-loVing trustees
there is enough powder and lead left
in South Carolina to wipe them OF
the face of the earth. And sucn les
sons as your institution is teaching
is what brought about the electrocu-
ton of this poor negro over here in
the penitentiaTy the other day for
rape. No doubt he rad passed your
college on his way home, and saw
your white women teachers locking
arms on social equality terms with
negroes, and ne decided that he must
have him white woman teacher also,
and the result was the electric chair
That is what the result is going to be
elsewhere from some similar institu-
tions, and if I had my way that re-