Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-06-26

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at IS a startling fact that / am go
ing to announce at this moment that
every white woman IN the black belt Of
the South today is living in a state Of
siege. The sons of those faithful. we'll
behaved servants-or slaves, if you
prefer-with all of their superior school
book learning and improved opportu-
mites, have become the rapist and the
robber. The care, the protection, the
safeguards that are thrown around the
white women are a thousand times
more rigid-greater vigilance is kept
| han were thrown around our mothers
100 years ago on the frontiers, where
the wild mar and the wild beast roamed
at will. These arc facts, and yot can.
not DENY them. The Senator from Min
nesota can not understand that but if he
should live in the black belt Of the
| South for a little while-if his wife and
daughters could live there, they would
soon feel the dampening effect of that
black cloud of peril which hovers over
the devoted head of every white girl
and woman in the South today"
Comment is scarce necessary.
But those of US living in the
black belt of the South who
look to emigration from Northern
states to help US to build up the
waste places in our fertile coun-
try; to help us to develop the
wealth"in Mississippi of which
our agricultural lands are the
basis, and to help us to solve the
race problem or the negro ques-
ton, ought to feel under many
obligations for the splendid in
ducements the senator's words
hold ont to our friends in other
sections to come and make their
homes among us.
AS an argument going to show
how desirable is life here in Dixie
for the man with wife and daugh-
ters to help him in home build
ing, the extract is unique and,
doubtless will appeal strongly to
Mr.. Vardaman's supporters in
the black belt as an evidence that
he is not only a statesman Dos
sessing a genius for ~oratory and
readiness in debate; but that he
is, indeed and in truth, the very
genius of common sense. Bah !
In his forensic encounters June
18th, 1914, in the Senate when
his imprudences of speech-his
in accuracy as "a measurel Of his
own language or his ignorance
of precisely what his own ut
terances meant in English'-re-
suited in his being Intellectually
knocked back and forth like al
shuttle-cock at the pleasure Of
Senators Hughes of New Jersey,
James Of Kentucky and West Of
Georgia, he was in a pitiable
plight.
But his woes did not end there,
His conceit, his fondness for
vituperation and paraphrase of
calumnious words and sentiments
and making application to suit
his own fancy, and his general
garrulity and recklessness Of
speech when criticising, in their
absence, those from whom he
differs, as was the case in his
interview in quotation marks
published in the Washington Post
of Monday, March 30."'a sheet
never just to Mr.. Wilson but ever
friendly to those who criticise or
calumniate him or his admins
tration, had caused him to say
some thing about the opposition
to his peculiar views on the re-
peal of the Panama Canal Tolls
bill, which Senator John Sharp
Williams deemed deserved notice
from him.
Then and there, before Senator
Williams completed his remarks,
the position of the junior senator
from Mississippi became such as
must have been humilitating to
every intelligent Mississippian
present.
For never before was any rep
resentative Of Mississippi in Con-
gress put in such awkward atti-
tude before the country.
Carefully put upon the tenter-
hook bv Williams so that there