The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-08-27

,onor bitterly excorated the South as whole for the
ivnchng of Leo M. Frank in Georgia. In part the Fri
bune said:
"The South is half educated. 1t is region OF Hit
eracv and incompetence blatant self-nghteousness
cruelty and violence Until it is improved by the nVa-
sion Of better blood and better ideas will remain re-
proach and danger to the American republic.
This is the indictment the South receives at the
hands of newspaper published in the educated and ef
fee Nawth from whence better blood and better IDEAS
are to come # we to be saved from the ravages OF
savagerv and ignorance This infusion, we presume is
to come from the veins of such shining examples of COM
Tercal and personal efficiency as those who carpetbag
ced through Arkansas and Tennessee and Georgia, Ala
bama and other units of this rebeous sector closely fol
lowing the civil war, when people lay helpless and
bleeding before forces superior in equipment and mum
bers but never in manhood and chivaly There are cit
les and towns in the South today struggling under the
load of financial Indebtedness saddled upon them by
thevng soldiers Of fortune who were backed by poltl,
cal leaders then in federal power and who like real
bgands considered the South land for individual eX
poitaon These creatures who came Flooding south
ward to plumber and murder and ncte race prejudice
still live among u.s. but they have learned lesson which,
tells them that the people of this country are very mch
alike matter from what geographical division they
They have been forced to acknowledge that there
are snendd people with the purest blood in the ba-
tant South just there is pure blood IN the North and
melted bv like outrages all prone to acts OF vO-
lence There is element OF eXenuaon IN connection
with the coWardy murder of the Georgia convict act
in years has cast darker stain upon Atlanta nor
brought into question wildly the lnefflcency OF
our criminal institutions ana the personal equason Yet
in the highly educated city Of Chicago we find examples
Of degeneracy revolving than that eXempfled
by the murder Of Frank Chicago, will be remember
ed, was at one time the home of Jack yohnson-that
world celebrity of the colored 1t will not be insist
ed that Jack typical of the higher type of citizen
ship of which the Tribune prates but at the time it
is interesting to observe that Chicago upon occasion
fell mady in love with the celebrated hero of the ring.
Hewas permitted by these Nawthem hghbrows to make
Chicago his haven of retreat where scease from the an
noyances and inconvenience incident to the life of a
al he bought
gded saloon where he could entertain with lavish dis
regard He married white wife, the former consort of
"well known turfman and took her to his silverbe
spanged cage in that Godbessed city of culture and
refinement from which Southern blood infusion is to-
spring. While hundreds of thousands OF those with bet
ter ideas pursued the tenor of their way in this
Eden of Goodness Jack Johnson took his wife her bed
i'll his Chicago den Lavishy he entertained Wine, wo
and song the watchword of the hour In this
celestial harbor guarded and protected by the lntell
gently conceived ordinances of those who constitute the
fibre of Chicago and guide her political and sociological
destines, black lips met white lips and the American
Beauty crushed to the breast of the African Beast
The newspapers of Chicago full of incidents of
lawessness enacted by Johnson His resort blight
upon the of civilization. His association with
white women, permitted by the police department of
Chicago but single instance of what Chicago will
permit with regard to the intermnglng of the races.
From this to which we have referred, perhaps we
to understand will spring that of intellectual
and moral giants whose blood must be infused into the
South before this blatant and wholly ignorant section
hope to grasp the modern mental view which dan
giles adaty and respendent before the vision of the
editor of the Chicago Tribune.
The South has no inclination to have its species
propagaed by the intellect of SUCH It does not believe
that an improvement would result We have desire
to have physical moral standards invaded and
polluted by that vast army OF moral peverts known as
"high society-men and who live in open adult
cry from year to year. who believe that the obligation
cident promissOry note is binding than the SOL
VOWS of wedlock, and who believe that NATIONAL
hero of the prize ring, though owbred negro is their
social equal and should be permitted to mix and minge
with thpjr0 Sop6c1 al
their