The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-02

Office, sworn to uphold the laws Justify and sane
ton mob violence? What are we coming to
when the former Governor of a State is warned
as this man Woodward warned Ex-Governor John
M. Slaton, not to return home for year, if ever
because as a consequence of having done his sworn
duty he would the risk of assassination?
What are we coming to when the chairman Of the
State Prison Commission declares that he does
not believe anyone can be blamed for conditions
which made it perfectly simple for a mob to
break into State prison and kidnap prisoner?
Now, Mr.. Mayor Woodward, you take
warning, and quit telling the Truth, when
you go away from home.
Tell lies as Slaton has been doing, and the
Hearst papers, and the JeW-fearlng press
will make hero out OF you.
'What are we coming to-" when Mayors
tell the Truth, and fugitive Governors plas-
ter the continent with Lies
Indeed, are we fallen upon evil times
The Northwest also excommunicates us,
the Milwaukee Free Press saying:
The spirit and method Of the Ku Kux Khan
has once more triumphed in Georgia. Once
Southern "gentility'' and "chivalry" have
vealed their true character in murder, secession
and anarchy For the same bestial spirit that
sought to disrupt this Union, the same spirit that
dashed and ravished the helpless slave, the same
Southern spirit that even today is celebrating the
blood-ust of the Ku Klux Khan a virtue, is
living in the persecution and murder OF Leo
Frank. The trial and conviction of this unfortu-
nate Jew, accomplished by the courts Of Geor-
gia enough to damn the people of that State
as unfit for citizenship. The horrible sequel of
his assassination proves them to be something
worse than barbarians. Americans have gazed
askance at the bloody immortality of Serbia But
Serbia is paradise of civilization compared with
the State of Georgia.
Wow can the NatiOn-the civilized, responsible
and self-governing part of it-longer tolefafe
this anarchy, this bio d-lust on the part OF
section that defed humanity and govern
ment till it had to be broken with swords and
bullets? Then orth, with the familiar sentiment
ality of the conquerer has been inclined to accept
the Southern explanation of the continued per-
secution of the blacks With a romanticism I'M
worthy of school girls, the North has swallowed
the pretense of ''chvalry, 'honor" and superior
"gentility" with which the South has veneered
it's barbarsm.
1t is time that this folly came to an end.
Statistics prove that not per cent of negro lynch
ings for the crime of rape Statistics prove
that Southern whites the rape-fends and not
the blacks. The truth is and it should be driven
home to every fool who applauds "Dixie'-the
tune that played to disrupt the Union and
conserve slavery-that negroes are lynched for
the pettest of crimes to satisfy the racial venom
and blood-lust Of their former masters.
And then this rot about the dangers of mis-
cegenation! Who is responsible for the mixture
of of Caucasian and Ethiopian blood in the coun-
try, the negro the Southern white? Not one
lght-colored black in 5000 is the result Of
negro's design a white woman. The light
colored black with scarcely an exception, dates
his ancestry to the lust of some Southern white
master, who did not hesitate to make the creature
he bought and sold an animal the mother of
his children So much for the Southern hypocrisy
that prates of miscegenaton to justify it's crimes.
But because the South seems helpless to re-
deem itself is no reason why the bulk of the Ma
ton should stand idly by and permit it continu-
ously to disgrace this country in the eyes of the
world; least of ALL to propagandize its doctrine of
race-hatred, anarchy and blood-lust throughout
the land by means of lying novels and motion
pictures.
If the cries of the burning black victims of
hundred Southern stakes have not been able to
Of fine North if remain