The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-08-05
WHERE JUSTICE is STRONGER.

WHERE JUSTICE is STRONGER.
Georgia stands dsgraced. Probably for the
first time in history a Governor of an American
commonwealth left office under the cloud of public
condemnation, with mob crying Lynch him.
as he leaves the State house But the stain is not
upon the Governor. The stain is upon the State.
Something is fundamentally wrong with the South
ern people They tried to tear our flag in half and
became traitors to the Government of the United
States in attempt to establish the "divine
right to steal labor. All that is happily past,
but the racial prejudice remains. 1t is so much
established fact that it no longer affords COM
ment Yet with all their ptiable prejudice, they
hold it as quite legitimate for white men to
exploit black women. And the bleached race is
the living evidence of the Southern white mans
crimes. But let a black man modest white
waman and the lynchers are there. They have
reason to be there. The crime is hideous and
deserves drastic punishment but let the lynchers
themselves be WlShOut sin before they cast the
stone.
The sontherncrs' racial prejudice against the
negro is recognized. But here is the surprise.
Hating the negro to the lynchng point, they will
ingly accept the testimony of q dscredited negro
to condemn Jew. And when their Governor
responds to nationwide demand that justice be
done, and the Governor of Georgia proves to be
every inch man, the mad, unreasonng South
storms his house, Kisses him when he declares
that he has not dishonored the great seal of the
State of Georgia, and shouts Lynch him. as
under military guard he departs to private life.
"The mob does not represent the South" says
a Southerner who attempts to apologize for Geor-
gia's shameless reputation of justice and honor.
If the mob does not represent the South then
will this apologist tell why the Ex-Governor need
have military guard? Where is the law-loving
majority of the State? Why they not out to
disburse the small minority that is engaged in
furnishing the fair name Of the State? The whole
mob rule record of the Frank case has proved that
all Georgia has put itself on record before the
whole world as governed by base prejudlces and
unreasOn.
1--WE want Slaton who betrayed Georgia to be-
come King of the Jews cried the mob in the
streets of Atlanta as they tried to get at the
departing Governor.
The public condemnation of Governor Slaton
proves not so much that Georgia has besmirched
her honor, that Georgia has no honor, But for
once she had a Governor who was a
king of the Jews" indeed! These prejudice
ridden people quite forget that the Christ they
profess to follow but fail to follow was himself
a Jew.
"They tried to tear our flag in half and
became traitors"
So! Must we fire on Fort Sumter again,
and renew hostilitio6 along the Potomac?
Wasn't there enough bunting to furnish a
full-sized flag to the Union, as we'll as to
the C0nfederacy; and if there is something
fundamentally wrong with the Southern peo-
pie, why wouldn't it have been a good thing
to allow us to have Republic of our own,
made up Of these fundamentally wicked
people?
1t wasn't bad thing for. the State Of
Panama when she seeded from the United
States Of Columbia, nor are the Panamans
accused of being traitors to the Colombian
Government.